Definitionn. diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
Last update: August 24, 2015
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Many ducks breed here, and many others pass through in migration :: of the former, the most numerous are mallard and teal; of the latter, pintail, shoveler, scaup, ring-neck ducks, and mergansers. [Please select]
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Except for the wing marks, greater and lesser scaup appear nearly identical in the field. [Please select]
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Hens are silent; drake lesser scaup _purr_; drake greater scaup have a discordant _scaup, scaup_. [Please select]
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KANSAS: American scaup duck, woodcock, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, pileated woodpecker, parrakeet, white-necked raven, American raven (all Prof.) [Please select]
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The only two birds which show an _increase_ in the past few years are the robin and lesser scaup. [Please select]
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In flight, the dark wings are different from the white-edged wings of scaup. [Please select]
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Greater scaup prefer large open water areas; lesser scaup often use marshes and ponds. [Please select]
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The Scaup is so called from its feeding on 'scaup', a northern word for a bed of shellfish. [Please select]
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The Scaup Duck is very abundant in Holland during winter, covering the inland seas with immense flocks. [Please select]
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[37] 'Avis hæc _the Scaup Duck_ dicta est quoniam _scalpam_, i.' [Please select]
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Its food is less exclusively of a fishy nature than that of the Scaup Duck, consequently its flesh is more palatable, being, in the estimation of French gastronomists, _un rôti parfait_. [Please select]
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