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Summer duck   /sˈəmər dək/   Listen
Summer duck

noun
1.
Showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees.  Synonyms: Aix sponsa, wood duck, wood widgeon.





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"Summer duck" Quotes from Famous Books



... or Summer Duck (Aix sponsa). Bill of male red, paddle-box buff, bill of female and feet ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... roused from its covert in the shady thickets of the pawpaw-trees. The wild turkey, too, in all the glitter of his metallic plumage, crossed my path; and upon the bayou, whose bank I for some time followed, I had ample opportunity of discharging my piece at the blue heron or the egret, the summer duck or the snake-bird, the slender ibis or the stately crane. Even the king of winged creatures, the white-headed eagle, was more than once within range of my gun, screaming his maniac note among the tops of ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid


Words linked to "Summer duck" :   wood widgeon, Aix, genus Aix, wood duck, wood drake, duck


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