How To Use Widgeon In A Sentence
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* Rallus Virginianus, the sorce bird or little brown rail, also called widgeon in Pennsyl.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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They were widgeons (_Anas Americana_); but the most singular thing that was now observed by our voyageurs was the terms upon which these three kinds of birds lived with each other.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
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Here's my Lab Moose with a widgeon drake at our duck blind in California's Suisun Marsh.
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As long as water existed nearby for resting, birds like Canada geese, widgeon, and pintails often thrived in the irrigated countryside.
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A company of widgeons, when first collecting, may be heard at an immense distance, by the whistling of the cocks and purring noise of the hens.
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A mallard or widgeon are best for this purpose.
The Sun
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They arrived in Omaha last night from Bancroft, where they had a remarkable three days’ shoot on widgeon and baldpates.
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The company of widgeon that first took possession will probably not shift their quarters till they next migrate.
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Where the trail hugs the edge of the slough, watch for waterfowl - pintails, green-winged teals, and widgeons - and listen for the machine-gun rattle of belted kingfishers.
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When a company of widgeon have once taken to frequent any particular river where plenty of food is to be had, they will continue to do so during the whole of the winter season.
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More than 70 varieties of birds breed on and around the lake, including the famous ospreys, tufted ducks, goldeneyes, coots, pochards, mallards and widgeons.
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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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Other factors that are affected by the trophic cascades initiated by the geese include reduced N mineralization rates and declines in the populations of soil invertebrates, waders, and some species of duck such as the widgeon (Anas americana).
Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
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I would agree with a canvasback or a drake widgeon.
This ones for the duck hunters: What is your dream duck to mount?(Mines any Drake sea duck or a nice Canvasback)
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On the sounds, widgeon, teal, gadwalls, pintails and black ducks concentrate following a freeze.
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It is known as a wintering site for whooper swans, which arrive from Iceland, and wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and mallard.
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How freaked out will people get if they discover 10,000 or so American widgeon have died in Alaska this year, along with about 20,000 mallards?
AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed
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Last year he counted 5,500 teal, 1,200 pintail and 2,000 widgeon among a duck population that has soared in numbers.
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If you are cooking widgeon, allow an extra 10 minutes or so as they tend to be twice the size.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw a great company of widgeons, several thousand at least.
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Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback.
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The Dams is regarded as an important regional reserve with 218 recorded species - including teal, widgeon, great crested grebe, pochard, wild geese, water voles and great crested newts.
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There was a fieldfare, and a couple of birdwatchers with bigger binoculars and more knowledge than me said they had seen a female sparrow hawk and 30 widgeon.
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The American widgeon is the constant attendant on the canvass-back duck, so celebrated in the United States for its excellence as an article of food.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Farther down, where freshwater met salt, a dozen little estuaries nourished tall stands of marsh grass and dozens of species of wildfowl, from the elegant Canada geese to widgeons with calls like rubber duck squeeze toys to the long-legged, long-billed lesser yellowlegs.
Fire and Ice
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It was not unusual for a hunter to bag up to 40 geese or widgeon with one shot with this method.
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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They were widgeons; but the most singular thing that was now observed by our voyageurs was the terms upon which these three kinds of birds lived with each other.
Popular Adventure Tales
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The whole company of widgeon rose in air.
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Widgeon grass, a submerged plant that grows in marshland pools, is particularly valuable because all of its parts are edible; it constitutes a large part of the diet of Canada geese, brants, coots, scaups, and many dabbling ducks.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States