This is blazoned on either side a mallard holding in its beak an ear of wheat slipped and leaved proper. |
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Other water birds include grey and mallard ducks, black swans, black shags. |
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Some ducks, such as mallard and pintail, will nest in grass and lush ground cover up to a kilometre or more away from the water body. |
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With their drab plumage, it is not unusual to mistake a gadwall for a hen mallard at a distance. |
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Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant. |
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They had a duckling that didn't look like the mallard ducklings that were there already. |
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He is helped by local creatures like a stinkpot turtle, a spring peeper, a muskrat, a kingfisher and a mallard duck. |
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There are the usual species for this wetland habitat mallard, tufted duck, coot, wigeon, teal and mute swan. |
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During the short drive to Joe's favourite diner in Madrid I spotted a group of five deer, several skeins of Canada geese and a group of mallard. |
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Set a bubble and squeak cake on each warm plate, top with some courgettes and a few sprigs of watercress and sit a mallard breast on top. |
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There were several pairs of great crested grebes but there were also good numbers of tufted duck, pochard, gadwall mallard and teal. |
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Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis. |
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The most abundant and widespread of all waterfowl, the mallard is also the most hunted game bird. |
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Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit. |
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It is known as a wintering site for whooper swans, which arrive from Iceland, and wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and mallard. |
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Tapping around my rooted limbs and grounded chest, a circus of quail, woodcock, and mallard perform. |
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We put two ponds on the property which attracts mallard ducks, wood ducks and a variety of waterfowl. |
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Like the Mariana mallard, the Guam broadbill also was probably never abundant. |
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This paper examines the function of female resistance behavior in one of the dabbling ducks, the mallard. |
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Here I observed a number of domestic ducks, including a Muscovy duck, a mallard hybrid, and the Pekin duck, along with a greylag goose. |
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Guess who is taking the orders for the Wicklow venison and the wild Irish mallard with Seville oranges? |
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I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade. |
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Some birds, such as the mallard, usually swim at the surface, feeding only as far underwater as they can reach by dipping their heads. |
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Among mallard ducklings imprinting is most feasible about 15 hours after hatching. |
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It is quite comment to spot a kingfisher hunting a fish or see a common heron or a mallard taking flight from the lake or the surrounding areas. |
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On Sunday trainee veterinary nurse Laura Harrison-Allan was amazed to find a male mallard and nine ducklings standing outside the pen holding the recovering bird. |
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Other ducks, such as the mallard, use their webbed feet to tip up and dabble at the water surface for food. |
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The little oasis on Buckshaw Hall Road, off Chancery Road, has been home to kingfishers, herons, mallard and a moorhen that has recently settled there. |
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Interestingly, the virus has only been found so far in a single mallard and the other birds on the farm appear to be in good health. |
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No reproductive effects were observed in mallard ducks exposed to 100 ppm of Clethodim Technical. |
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It was a pretty typical college pad, save the duck mounts lining the walls, which include a mallard, wigeon and oldsquaw. |
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You disfigure a peacock, splat a pike, thigh a pigeon, and unbrace a mallard. |
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GooseGlove decoy conversion systems come in blues, snows, speckles, Canadas and whitefronts, and there's even a mallard. |
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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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Shortly after setting off I had my first sighting of a kingfisher while watching curlews, warblers, sand martins, mallard ducks and mute swans. |
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Here and there, wildlife is given a spectacle: a heron that flies, a mallard duck that paddles a muskrat swimming to the surface, a bullfrog croaks that... Park in the Making? |
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The domestic, or Pekin, duck is thought to have been bred from the wild mallard in China at least 2,000 years ago and as many as 10,000 years ago. |
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Not exactly a sitting duck, but close... Speaking of ducks…the four species of shoveler resemble their more-recognizable relatives, such as the mallard and the wood duck, until you get to the beak. |
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It is also appropriate to introduce certain restrictions on the movement of vaccinated mallard ducks, their hatching eggs and mallard ducks derived from vaccinated poultry. |
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Unlike the mallard, which has shown declines in some populations and increases in others, the decline in the pintail appears to be occurring in all areas of North America. |
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The mallard has been shown to undergo considerable changes in population size, largely because of the quality of nesting habitat and the weather during the nesting season. |
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There are regular sightings of the common merganser and belted kingfisher, as well as the American black duck, mallard, great blue heron and red-winged blackbird. |
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In January, higher water levels in khawrs attract full set of wintering fowls, including pintail, pigeon, gadwall, mallard, teal, etc. |
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Now, each year, its members release 500-700 pheasants, together with mallard and French partridge. |
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There are several more or less quirky traditions peculiar to individual colleges, for example the All Souls mallard song. |
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We examined 8 Baikal teals, 3 bean geese, 1 whooper swan, and 2 mallard ducks naturally infected with HPAI A virus. |
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After powdering the faux sea duck, she swung high to make the make-believe mallard dinner. |
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Using scallops and silver eel, mallard and Arctic hare, Nick whips up a mouth-watering array of menus. |
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These birds mainly consist of water fowl, hobara bustard, cranes, teals, pintail, mallard, geeze, spoon bills, waders, palicons and gadwall. |
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Age-dependent changes in activity of mallard plasma cholinesterases. |
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For many years the prevailing wisdom was retrievers ought to have their dewclaws removed, lest they become snagged on debris en route to a downed mallard. |
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And some, like four-time Tennessee state duck calling champion, Bill Cooksey, can mimic the strange sound almost perfectly, using a single-reed mallard call. |
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It claims wildfowling has been practised in the area for generations with the main quarry being mallard wigeon, teal, pintail, Canada and Greylag geese. |
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Whooper swans, shovelers and teals, mallard, wigeon, goldeneye and sometimes pink footed geese, as well as breeding tufted duck, inhabit the area. |
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