ring-necked duck

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A North American duck (Aythya collaris) having a distinctive light ring behind the tip of the bill and, in the male, a light chestnut ring around the neck. Also called ring-bill.

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ring-bill Ringneck			Exciting, yes, but every small alpine pond that held a pair of buffleheads or a pocket of ring-necked ducks reminded me I was missing something. Washington's mixed bag: from mallards to sea ducks, the Evergreen ... by Johnson, M.D. / Wildfowl I've been watching buffleheads, wood duck, common mergansers, and ring-necked ducks on my pond. Area waters getting stocked by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) clypeata 4 Wood duck ([double dagger]) Aix sponsa 104 Common goldeneye ([section]) Bucephala clangula 18 Canvasback ([section]) Aythya valisinena 19 Hooded merganser ([section]) Lophodytes cucullatus 26 Lesser scaup ([section]) Aythya affinis 1 Redhead ([section]) Aythya americana 223 Ring-necked duck ([section]) Aythya collaris 51 Ruddy duck ([parallel]) Oxyura jamaicensis 2 No. Wild Bird Influenza Survey, Canada, 2005 by Parmley, Jane E.; Bastien, Nathalie; Booth, Timothy F.; Bowes, Victoria; Buck, Peter A.; Andre Breau / Emerging Infectious Diseases			Ring plover ring road ring rot ring rot bacteria ring rot fungus ring snake Ring spinner Ring stopper ring taw ring thrush ring topology ring up ring vaccination Ring winding ring-a-ring-a-roses ring-a-rosy ring-around-a-rosy ring-around-the-rosy ring-bill ring-billed gull ring-binder ring-dyke ring-fence ring-neck ring-necked ring-necked duck ring-necked parakeet ring-necked pheasant ring-necked snake ring-pull ring-shaped ring-shout ring-stalked fungus Ring-streaked ring-tailed ring-tailed cat Ring-tailed eagle ring-tailed lemur ringbark Ringbill Ringbird ringbolt ringbone ringdove ringed ringed plover ringed seal ringed snake Ringed worm ringent ringer			Ring-dove Ring-dove ring-down artifact ring-down time Ring-Dried Blood Meal ring-dyed fiber ring-dyke ring-eyes ring-fence ring-fence ring-fence ring-fenced ring-fences ring-fences ring-fences ring-fencing ring-fencing ring-fencing Ring-Finger Binding Protein Ring-Focused Paraboloid ring-fracture intrusion ring-fracture stoping ring-groove nail ring-in ring-ins Ring-inscription ring-knife ring-lifter case ring-neck Ring-necked ring-necked duck ring-necked parakeet ring-necked pheasant ring-necked pheasant Ring-Necked Pheasant Lysozyme ring-necked snake ring-oil Ring-opening metathesis polymerization Ring-Opening/Cross-Metathesis ring-porous wood ring-pull ring-roller mill ring-rolling ring-shank nail ring-shaped Ring-Shaped Phase Center ring-shout ring-stalked fungus Ring-streaked Ring-Structured Recurrent Network ring-tailed ring-tailed ring-tailed ring-tailed cat ring-tailed cat ring-tailed cats Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed coati Ring-tailed eagle ring-tailed lemur

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