mallard

How To Use mallard In A Sentence

• The mallards, golden-eyes and trumpeters were still there, working the shallows of the river for aquatic plants.
• There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
• Emerald-headed mallards bob alongside kayakers in the river's riffles of whitewater.
• As the sex ratio in the adult population of mallards tends to be biased toward males, some males remain unpaired during the breeding season.
• On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
• More than 218 species have been recorded on the reserve, including mallards, teal, widgin, great crested grebes, pochard, wild geese and Canada geese.
• A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
• It is known as a wintering site for whooper swans, which arrive from Iceland, and wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and mallard.
• A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry squawk.
• I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.