Labrador duck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Labrador duck
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
McGrain’s subjects have included, among others, the passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Labrador duck, the heath hen, and the Carolina parakeet.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 14, 2018
The less numerous Labrador duck and Eskimo curlew suffered the same fate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2016
Before the end of this smart, likable coming-of-age movie, the members of a high school’s Young Birder Society go on an expedition in search of the Labrador duck, a supposedly extinct species.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
The great auk and the Labrador duck have both become utterly extinct within living memory.
From Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry
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