How To Use Ruddy duck In A Sentence
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Nestled in the hills of California's San Joaquin Valley, a tranquil pond invites flocks of ruddy ducks, pintails, and shovelers to feed at its shores.
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The ruddy duck, a native of North America, is now interbreeding with its close relative.
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The ruddy duck, an attractive bird with chestnut plumage and a bright blue bill is well settled as a species in England.
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The result is that the ruddy duck's genes, stronger, more virile, dominate the union, producing ruddy duck dominated hybrids and weakening the white-headed duck strain.
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Ruddy ducks, which many say are not edible, were brought into Britain from American in 1950 and escaped into the wild from wildfowl collections.
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Research associate Ron Therrien shows us around, pointing out such species as the ruddy duck, the Harlequin and the surf scoter.
Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
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Some of the wildfowl known as ruddy ducks tend to fly to Spain for the winter and then stay on for the spring mating season.
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Northern pintail, shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard are most numerous, but a discerning eye will spot many types of ducks such as wigeon, cinnamon teal, gadwall and varieties of divers like canvasback, ring-necked and ruddy ducks.
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The Government agreed to wipe out the UK's ruddy duck population after it was found the north American duck was challenging the survival of the globally-threatened white-headed duck through interbreeding.
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My next stop, Cheddar reservoir, produced more ducks: a female smew and a pair of ruddy ducks among them.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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Other problematic mammals include the ruddy duck, an American import that is threatening the native white-headed duck with extinction, and sika deer from Asia, which eat saplings and strip bark from trees.
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Wintering waterfowl include pintail, cinnamon teal, American widgeon, surf scoter and ruddy duck.
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
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GETTING rid of ruddy ducks has landed taxpayers with a whopping bill of more than 1million.
The Sun
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On another side of the lake, we scoped a raft of Ruddy Ducks and shovelers, and a few pelicans even farther away.
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A feature is the ruddy duck which first bred in Britain here.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Brightly coloured bushes and flowers carpet the windswept hills, and in every hollow there are lakes or ponds teeming with black-necked swans, upland geese, ruddy ducks and silvery teal.
