In the traditional survey area, several birds that gunners love to cross beads on showed gains, such as gadwall (+2%), canvasbacks (+11%), and scaup (+2%).    From Wordnik.com.  [The News from Duckville] Reference

In the traditional survey area, gadwall are up 56 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News from Duckville] Reference

The drab hens can be confused with hen gadwall, but you can identify a woody hen by its tear-shaped, white eye-patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl] Reference

Be patient: Teal and gadwall fly early, but the main event starts at midmorning when the mallards come back from the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great American Duck Hunts] Reference

An hour later, we were shooing gadwall and teal out of the decoys as we waited for one last bunch of mallards to fill our mixed-bag limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great American Duck Hunts] Reference

In the hand The drake mallard is the most readily recognized duck, but the hen can be easily confused with the black duck, gadwall, and mottled duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl] Reference

Look for a bright white stripe bordering a purple speculum-blacks and gadwall don't have it, and the white stripe is barely visible on the mottled duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl] Reference

The hen wigeon can be confused with the hen gadwall, but the latter's bill is orange-red and its wing lacks the green stripe separating the speculum from the shoulder patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl] Reference

The area is important wintering habitat for bald eagles, white pelicans, and many species of waterfowl such as mallards, green-winged teal, pintails, goldeneye, gadwall, and buffleheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proclamation On Hanford Reach National Monument] Reference

gadwall Population numbers are up, so toss three to five gadwall decoys — or mallard hens — in a cluster near the shore side of your decoy spread to convince "gray ducks" to pitch in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tips, Tactics, and Gear for Beaver Pond Ducks] Reference

Reading Jonathan Franzen's annoyingly self-absorbed "My Bird Problem" in the latest New Yorker, one reason I kept going was the profusion of wonderful bird names: gadwall, veery, redstart, dunlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.] Reference

The gadwall has a flattened crown and a narrow gray bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [RGJ.com - Latest News] Reference

Embedded below is a 2 minute radio programme about the gadwall, thanks to my friends at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

He had taken two ducks - a gadwall and a blue-winged teal - and he was already talking about his next hunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

He had taken two ducks — a gadwall and a blue-winged teal — and he was already talking about his next hunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

Two of those species - gadwall and green-winged teal - are among the top three ducks taken by Texas waterfowlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

I don't think I've ever seen as many ducks this early - redheads, of course, but teal, wigeon, gadwall, pintails.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] 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

More Matagorda Bay birds: Black-bellied whistling duck, blue - and green-winged teals, gadwall, ibis, sandhill crane.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Some ducks - gadwall, green-winged teal, shoveler and redhead - are more than 50 percent above their long-term average.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

Swans have been seen in several locations and have been joined by pintails, gadwall, American wigeon and green-winged teal.    From Wordnik.com. 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

Texas wetlands this winter plays a role in how well pintails and bluewings, wigeon and gadwall, shovelers and redheads fare during the 2011 nesting season.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

They estimate the number of the 10 most populous duck species: mallard, pintail, scaup, gadwall, wigeon, canvasback, redhead, blue-winged and green-winged teal and northern shoveler.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

When intensively managed with brackish waters from nearby Pamlico Sound, this area provides excellent habitat for American wigeon, gadwall, Northern pintail, black ducks and lesser scaup.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

All other dabbling ducks except for gadwall (-42 percent) showed increases from last year (blue-winged teal, +53 percent; mallards, +43 percent; wigeon, +44 percent; and green-winged teal, +14 percent).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A pair of gadwall were the first ducks over our decoys, and neither escaped, one somersaulting and landing to the left of our makeshift blind, the other arching in the opposite direction, its last flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Greenlaw, shot a fine specimen of the male gadwall, a comparatively rare visitor. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference

Shot gadwall, painted 'em, ate 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six-Word Story Contest] Reference

(Look-alike gadwall hens have a lighter belly.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl] Reference

2 large ducks (mallard, pintail, gadwall) or 4 small ones (shoveler, wigeon, teal) 2 Tbsp. butter, softened.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Cook Salmi Of Wild Duck] Reference

"Even though the site sits cheek by jowl with a built-up urban area, it supports bird species like nuthatches, gadwall and whooper swans; as well as otters, bats, badgers and even rare comma butterflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [icLanarkshire] Reference

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs. com/mt/pings/126037 gadwall, I'm thinking female .... per Sibley, white secondaries visible, plain face, thin bill orange on the sides, high forehead ... cool drip!.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Honkers & Specks, mallards, pintails, gadwall, widgeon, Wood ducks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | all for sale / wanted in SF bay area] Reference