canvasback
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Origin of canvasback
An Americanism dating back to 1595–1605; after the canvaslike color of its back
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On the banks of Yosemite Creek, brown-headed canvasback ducks plunged and preened.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the list of protected birds it added Atlantic brant, canvasback and redhead ducks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mallards, pintails and wigeon make up the bulk of the puddlers, while available divers include bluebills, redheads, buffleheads and an occasional canvasback.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seven guns had killed 118 ducks, fifty of them canvasback.
From Out of Doors—California and Oregon by Graves, J. A.
Also spotted, but in fewer numbers, were snow geese, buffleheads, redheads, goldeneyes, American widgeon, ruddy, ring-necked, canvasbacks, scaup and wood ducks.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come to me for food.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day, from a New York Rod & Gun Club blind on Spesuti Island, he shot four black ducks and eight canvasbacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, unless all plans go wrong, we may very likely have canvasbacks on the boat; although I can not promise you that John will be as good a chef as our friend here at Luigi’s.
From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Mathes, Harry A.
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