How to use wigeon in a sentence
In the autumn the lakes in this neighbourhood are the resort of large packs of wigeon, gadwall and pochard.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryBy four oclock we had secured, in five drives, eleven geese and a wigeon.
Unexplored Spain | Abel ChapmanFor the following statements, see on the wigeon, Loudon’s ‘Mag.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | Charles DarwinThe same remarks may be said to apply to the Teal, the wigeon, and some few others.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles DixonThe bulk of the ducks this winter proved to be Pintails, though wigeon were hardly less abundant.
Wild Spain (Espaa agreste) | Abel Chapman
British Dictionary definitions for wigeon
widgeon
/ (ˈwɪdʒən) /
a Eurasian duck, Anas penelope, of marshes, swamps, etc, the male of which has a reddish-brown head and chest and grey and white back and wings
American wigeon or baldpate a similar bird, Anas americana, of North America, the male of which has a white crown
Origin of wigeon
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