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grey duck

gray duck

(Animals) another name for parera

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Mallards dominated the bag and the second most abundant duck in the lodge's rice fields was the resurgent grey duck.

Too many ducks! In the rice fields of Arkansas, a blizzard of birds exerts a much stronger pull than a few dozen decoys

Phil Robertson's Gadwall Drake perfectly imitates the call of the male grey duck. 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.

Speaking in tongues: so your hen mallard call isn't lighting up bonus birds? Here's how to break the language barrier

The nasally dweeeeek of a drake mallard, the dink, dink-dink of a grey duck or the breathy whistle of a baldpate combined with the traditional quacks and chuckles of a Susie can be music to even the most jaded duck's ears.

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Mallards may be king and pintails more majestic, but the grey duck has become a favorite target for hunters all across this nation's flyways.

A touch of grey: find the right food sources to exploit booming numbers of gadwall across our flyways

Our first hunt had been slow--only four gadwall--making us the high total for the day, only because guide Dusty Brown killed a long-range grey duck as the rest of us "were putting our guns down.

Season of change: the heat's on so the birds aren't, until a Missouri rain falls and the north wind blows

When mallard ducks were introduced to New Zealand in the late 19th century, for example, they mated with native grey ducks. Today, there are few, if any, pure grey ducks left.

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A couple green-wing teal there, a half dozen grey ducks by that muskrat house, a shoveler, a couple pintails here.

Surefire duck spreads; duck spreads that don't disappoint

The grey ducked drastically to the left, moving right across the hurdle and hampering Souriceau before he pulled a length and a half clear.

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As October gives way to Thanksgiving and Christmas, mallard numbers, along with pintails and, most recently, grey ducks, swell on the brackish water.

A dash 'o salt: whistling wings of both divers and puddlers await at the month of the Columbia

The eastern edge of the area is formed by the serpentine wanderings of the Altamaha River, as famed a waterfowler's paradise as can be found south of the Mason-Dixon, but we're not talking grey ducks here.

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It had escaped from a field where there were several acres of filthy, grey ducks.

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On a recent hunt with Mike and Lamar Boyd (beaverdamducks.com) at the south end of Beaver Dam Lake, the trusty Fox dropped mallards and grey ducks on Buckingham's old hunting grounds.