gadwall
Americannoun
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gadwalls,
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gadwall
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
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 is really a southern duck, coming into the United States to breed.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne
"Shooting on the river Doe, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Colonel Kennaway, Greenlaw, shot a fine specimen of the male gadwall, a comparatively rare visitor."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
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
There is a limit of ten to a bag on canvasback, redhead, scaup, ringneck, all teals, gadwalls and shovellers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the birders were quickly adding one species after another: white-throated sparrows, pheasants, gadwalls and, finally, mergansers.
From Time Magazine Archive
What a multitude of wild ducks there are in Scotland and every other country, mallards, pintails, gadwalls, widgeons, pochards and teals, all very much alike in their habits and tastes!
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
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