The American widgeon is the constant attendant on the canvass-back duck, so celebrated in the United States for its excellence as an article of food. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
I would agree with a canvasback or a drake widgeon. From Wordnik.com. [This ones for the duck hunters: What is your dream duck to mount?(Mines any Drake sea duck or a nice Canvasback)] Reference
Also look for widgeon grass growing in more permanent pools. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Dense beds of widgeon grass thrive in the creeks and shallow bay. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
Three widgeon and two black duck way on the other edge of the pond. From Wordnik.com. [Stillwater] Reference
The “widgeon” I presume to be a mistake or a misprint for pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
EH hunts widgeon, mallards, and pintails in the Veneto for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
Here's my Lab Moose with a widgeon drake at our duck blind in California's Suisun Marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Best Gun Dog Contest] Reference
Wintering waterfowl include pintail, cinnamon teal, American widgeon, surf scoter and ruddy duck. From Wordnik.com. [Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
Other birds shot by the fowlers were mallard, teal, widgeon, whimbrells, grebes of several kinds, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Dense beds of widgeon grass, a type of submerged aquatic vegetation, have been reported in Little Monie Creek. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
"The dead are dead," he said, leaning over and opening my game bag to look into it and sort and count the few braces of partridge, snipe and widgeon. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
"And we like roast widgeon, you and I, Marie-Josephine.". From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
One of the preferred types of vegetation is widgeon grass. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The widgeon has observed him going down; and, calculating to. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
Soon a large flight came over, mixed up with mallard and widgeon. From Wordnik.com. [Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain] Reference
No pass of duck, widgeon, barnacle, or curlew, was unknown to him. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Pintail, widgeon, snow geese, wood duck, and so on abound pete Says. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
We managed to get a teal, a couple of widgeon and a couple of ring necks. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
The widgeon and the preserved ginger were as delicious as one could wish. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others] Reference
"Fifteen widgeon went off when I returned to the blind," he said, unsmiling. From Wordnik.com. [Blue-Bird Weather] Reference
The widgeon is but a poor diver, while the canvas-back is one of the very best. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
By the banks teal, widgeon and wild duck, and in some places, snipe, are plentiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War] Reference
"They came in there like widgeon to the reeds, and round and round they swung -- thus!". From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
The widgeon were especially fun to watch, looking like tornadoes as they spiraled down to the ponds. From Wordnik.com. [Island Packet: Home] Reference
The widgeon, Mr. Waterton tells us, is a much more familiar bird than either the pochard or the teal. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
It would always hold some gadwalls and mallards and usually some ring necks and widgeon on opening day. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
With the ducks come teal and widgeon and moorhen, till the swampy meadow resounds with their strange cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Poacher] Reference
The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
The mallard duck, the widgeon, and the green-winged teal are tolerably abundant in the little estuaries of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 9] Reference
These islands shelter the birds, and when the lake is covered with ice the islands are crowded with wild duck and widgeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
By the first of November brahminy duck, gadwall, common teal, widgeon, shovellers and the various species of pochard abound. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
And the widgeon began to go up the river in great companies, all whistling, and then would suddenly wheel and all go down again. From Wordnik.com. [A Dreamer's Tales] Reference
The coordinator had liked a painting of a pair of ducks, so Miller submitted a painting of widgeon ducks splashing off the water and won. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I saw that the canvas-backs were accompanied by another species of a very different colour from themselves: this was the American widgeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
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