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Definition of baldpate in English: baldpatenounˈbɔːldpeɪtˈbɔldpeɪt The American wigeon (in allusion to its white-crowned head). Example sentencesExamples - American Wigeons dominate the marsh this season; their creamy-white crowns are suggestive of their nickname: baldpates.
- They arrived in Omaha last night from Bancroft, where they had a remarkable three days’ shoot on widgeon and baldpates.
- Arctic terns, Mew gulls, scaup, shoveler, buffleheads, baldpates, yellow legs and various passerines were observed.
- Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals, shovellers, green and blue-winged teals, pintails, black ducks, baldpates and gadwalls.
- The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
- A winter census of a lake in Arizona may include a thousand coots, a thousand gadwalls, a thousand baldpates, and assorted other species in lesser numbers.
- Recent changes in the distribution of waterfowl species have been noted, such as a decrease of baldpates and swans, and a concomitant rapid increase of pintails.
- There is every probability that these missiles land on parked cars and windows, if not on baldpates.
Definition of baldpate in US English: baldpatenounˈbɔldpeɪtˈbôldpāt The American wigeon (in allusion to its white-crowned head). Example sentencesExamples - A winter census of a lake in Arizona may include a thousand coots, a thousand gadwalls, a thousand baldpates, and assorted other species in lesser numbers.
- Recent changes in the distribution of waterfowl species have been noted, such as a decrease of baldpates and swans, and a concomitant rapid increase of pintails.
- There is every probability that these missiles land on parked cars and windows, if not on baldpates.
- American Wigeons dominate the marsh this season; their creamy-white crowns are suggestive of their nickname: baldpates.
- Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals, shovellers, green and blue-winged teals, pintails, black ducks, baldpates and gadwalls.
- Arctic terns, Mew gulls, scaup, shoveler, buffleheads, baldpates, yellow legs and various passerines were observed.
- The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
- They arrived in Omaha last night from Bancroft, where they had a remarkable three days’ shoot on widgeon and baldpates.
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