gadwall
Americannoun
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Origin of gadwall
First recorded in 1660–70; origin uncertain
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Look for the northern shoveler, the ring-necked duck and the gadwall.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
A solitary male gadwall “stayed still long enough for me to fixate on its delicate herringbone feather pattern.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
The gadwall, however, migrates as far north as British Columbia for breeding purposes as well as breeding on the mountain lakes of all the territory through which it ranges.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
By the first of November brahminy duck, gadwall, common teal, widgeon, shovellers and the various species of pochard abound.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
In regard to the present species, this fact was due to the efforts of Andrew Fountaine, on whose property, in West Norfolk and its immediate neighbourhood, the gadwall, from 1850, annually bred in increasing numbers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Potential bird sightings include gadwalls and buffleheads, dazzling ducks like the common goldeneye and the red-breasted merganser and tons of gulls, including the laughing gull and the ring-billed gull.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Other water birds spotted by Patla and Lucas that day included gadwalls, buffleheads, Barrow’s goldeneyes, common goldeneyes and ring-necked ducks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
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
There is a limit of ten to a bag on canvasback, redhead, scaup, ringneck, all teals, gadwalls and shovellers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, one winter, pintails will swarm; another, gadwalls and garganeys are conspicuous; the next, at corresponding seasons, one or the other will, perhaps, be almost entirely absent.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
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