How To Use Wigeon In A Sentence
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The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
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My first sighting was of large numbers of pink-footed geese and wigeon along with some ringed plover and shelduck.
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Females during the breeding season and the young eat many aquatic invertebrates, but aside from that, wigeons are plant-eaters.
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Wigeon whistle cheerfully to each other, and the bright white breasts of shoveler ducks shine even in this weak light as they constantly sift the sediment with their wide beaks.
Country diary: West Sussex
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One wigeon nearby had its head underwater and was completely clueless the whole time.
Lynx Stalks an American Wigeon
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Wigeon and a few goldeneye appear in winter.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Wigeon, scaup, ringnecks and a considerable number of mallards make use of the parkland habitat, Sharp said.
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The new ducks of the day were Bufflehead and American Wigeon, both drakes.
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In the larger channels and pools wigeon are dabbling.
Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk
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The most numerous species are wigeon Anas penelope (39,000: 112,000 in the1970s), common pochard Aythya ferina (120,000 in 1971) and coot Fulica atra (36,000: 188,000 in 1973).
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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Around the same time and at the same value, there also were plenty of wigeons and teal, although neither made much of an impression at the processing house.
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There are the usual species for this wetland habitat mallard, tufted duck, coot, wigeon, teal and mute swan.
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As usual the noisiest birds were the drake wigeon with their musical double whistle, which is very penetrating.
Country diary: Cromarty Firth
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For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.
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He said water plants targeted by the swans - including eelgrass, wigeongrass, and sago pondweed - act as important nursery areas for fish and invertebrates.
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The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
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Three baits discovered containing poisons: a hare laced with alphachloralose, a goat with aldicarb and a wigeon with strychnine.
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Our two most common ducks, Mallard and American Black Duck, are dabblers, as are teals (like the Green-winged Teal we saw on New Year's Day) and wigeons.
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More wigeon, and a few flocks of teal fly in, descending on to the dark water before clambering out on to the muddy ground.
Country diary: West Sussex
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American Wigeons dominate the marsh this season; their creamy-white crowns are suggestive of their nickname: baldpates.
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Drake has low croon, duck a harsh wigeon-like quack: both make whistling sound in flight like Goldeneye.
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Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit.
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The Eurasian Wigeon is a regular winter visitor to Washington's coasts and western lowlands.
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The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
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During the spring and fall migration periods, extensive use is made of the area by most waterfowl in the mid-Atlantic region, including Canada geese, greenwinged teal, bluewinged teal, gadwall, pintail, wigeon and shoveler.
Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
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My first sighting was of large numbers of pink-footed geese and wigeon along with some ringed plover and shelduck.
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The wigeon is a beautiful duck that originated in Europe and Asia.
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For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.
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Knot spun away in a grey miniature cloud, wigeon split up into small groups while the redshanks did not seem to know what to do.
Country diary: Cromarty Firth
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From below and almost through the middle of these lapwings blasts a denser flock of wigeon with even greater urgency.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Predominant waterfowl species that breed in the region include the lesser scaup, pintail, scoter, and wigeon.
Upper Yukon Tayga Province (Bailey)
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At certain times there can be a million birds in front of you consisting of sandhill cranes, snow geese, cackling geese, white-fronted geese, pintails, wigeons and mallards.
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The Ducks of Teshekpuk Lake
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The short list includes gadwalls, wigeons, mallards, shovelers, mottled ducks and pintails.
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The ponds also attract black ducks, canvasbacks, American wigeons, lesser and greater scaups, green- and blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and herons.
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Photographer Anthony Gibson was lucky enough to capture an attempt by this lynx to grab an American wigeon in Alaska's Denali National Park.
Lynx Stalks an American Wigeon
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At certain times there can be a million birds in front of you consisting of sandhill cranes, snow geese, cackling geese, white-fronted geese, pintails, wigeons and mallards.
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At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls.
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Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit.
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Wigeon don't quack, but have a squeaky call - rather like a child's rubber duck.
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The hen wigeon can be confused with the hen gadwall, but the latter's bill is orange-red and its wing lacks the green stripe separating the speculum from the shoulder patch.
Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
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The main birds were oystercatchers, knot and wigeon.
Country diary: Cromarty Firth
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And wigeon and scaup, teal and shovelers, buffleheads and a few mottled ducks.
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A number of waterfowl species including goldeneye Bucephala clangula, goosander Mergus merganser, wigeon Anas penelope, teal Anas crecca and bean goose Anser fabalis breed in the area.
Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation
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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 most numerous species are wigeon Anas penelope (39,000: 112,000 in the1970s), common pochard Aythya ferina (120,000 in 1971) and coot Fulica atra (36,000: 188,000 in 1973).
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia