widgeon


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Synonyms for widgeon

freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals

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Once he earned his pilot license and various ratings, he purchased a variety of aircraft like a Piper Tri-Pacer, two Super Cub seaplanes, a Twin Aztec, a Super Stinson on floats, A36 Bonanza, two Beechcraft Barons, a Bucher, a Widgeon, a King Air, a Cessna 172, and a helicopter.
"When water levels are high these shallow ponds are filled with aquatic vegetation like smartweed, sedge, duck potato, widgeon grass and wild millet.
"In the autumn, pale-bellied brent geese fly in from Svalbard,, pink-footed and greylag geese, widgeon, grey plovers and bartailed godwits are just some of the islands other visitors.
A few wayward widgeon or even a pintail or two are a possibility provided the weather up north is cool enough to get birds headed south.
On the fore deck was an old dog, Rover, along with Trott, Bully, Widgeon, Sydney, Gus, and "the Drinks" family of Punch, Whiskey, Gin, and Bitters, so named by Marshall on the voyage south.
represented by watercolours of teal on their nest and widgeon Rickman's tutor, George Edward Lodge (1860-1954), is represented by watercolours of teal on their nest and widgeon at the water's edge.
But I'll also take them to Castle Espie in Co Down, now a four-star visitor attraction, and where there has been much recent rejoicing over the rare arrival of a spoonbill, not to mention 1,000 widgeon.
"I've ridden on the Goose and on the Widgeon (another Grumann amphibious plane)," Boyette says.
The Prince had a black Labrador called Widgeon when he was a youngster.
Diet composition and feeding strategy of the southern pipefish Syngnathus folletti in a Widgeon grass bed of the Patos Lagoon Estuary RS.
Is it waders,wildfowl and widgeon. The Shelducks couldn't work it out!
We flew into Deadman Bay on a gorgeous 50-year-old Widgeon and taxied up to the cabin.
We've seen them take dead rabbits, sheep and swans but they are also hunting ducks over the loch, taking mallards, teal and the odd widgeon as well."