Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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While it's not absolutely necessary, I prefer to use species-specific decoys, especially if targeting divers such as canvasback, scaup or redheads. |
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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. |
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Stage of incubation was determined by candling and by flotation as calibrated for Canvasback eggs. |
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The Canvasback is a medium-sized duck with an elegant pattern of black, russet, and white. |
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