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How to use canvasback in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word canvasback? Here are some examples.

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Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback.
And the hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl that stop there every winter include mallards, canvasback ducks, blue-winged and green-winged teals, and wood ducks.
From time to time, the pond has hosted the locally rare redhead, a member of the group to which scaup, the canvasback and ring-necked duck belong.
Stone sees every bird he shoots as a trophy and wonderful table fare, whether it is a canvasback, teal, ruddy duck, mallard, merganser or swan.
While it's not absolutely necessary, I prefer to use species-specific decoys, especially if targeting divers such as canvasback, scaup or redheads.
Red-winged blackbirds are often calling in the wetlands by the 15th, and woodcocks, canvasback ducks and rusty blackbirds appear in many locations as March approaches.
Stage of incubation was determined by candling and by flotation as calibrated for Canvasback eggs.
The Canvasback is a medium-sized duck with an elegant pattern of black, russet, and white.
Examples from Classical Literature
On March 18, 1908, Mr. Savage saw a handsome male canvasback come down against the ice bridge.
The canvasback is superior in flavor to any other species of wild duck, and is much esteemed.
When I have a canvasback duck before me I dont think of anything else while its there.
I told James twas a canvasback, and he blazed away at it, but missed it by three fathom, as might have been expected.
Many of these ducks, as articles of food, compare favorably with our mallard and canvasback.
The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back.
The Redhead closely resembles in flavor the canvasback, and often is mistaken for it.
The red-head, both species of the scaups, the canvasback and the ruddy are commonly found on the fresh-waters.
Bingham bowed over his glass, and regretted that canvasback ducks and terrapin were not yet in season.
And they learned to eat roasted mallard and canvasback in the California style of sixteen minutes in a hot oven.
He is a twin brother of the canvasback, and quite as good to eat.
Sebring named the Canvasback, Redhead and Woodcock over-and-under models as the most popular.
Each room is named for a type of duck, with names like Wigeon, Specklebelly, Canvasback, Black Duck, Mallard, Pintail, and Redhead.
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