diving duck in English

noun
1
a duck of a type that dives under water for food, such as the pochard, scaup, tufted duck, and goldeneye.
Common Goldeneyes are diving ducks and forage mostly under water.

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1. Washington's smallest diving duck, the Bufflehead, is easily distinguished from other ducks

2. Bufflehead: This small diving duck is mostly white with a glossy green-black to purple-black head and back

3. Canvasback: This is a large, flashy diving duck with a pale gray body, black breast and tail and gray legs and feet

4. Definition of Bufflehead : a small North American diving duck (Bucephala albeola) Examples of Bufflehead in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web In an all-day coastal marsh sit, …

5. Butterball - small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage Bucephela albeola , bufflehead , dipper duck - small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

6. USS Broadbill (AM-58), was an ‹See TfM› Auk -class minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the Broadbill, a hunters' nickname for the greater scaup, a diving duck common in the winter along the Atlantic coast.

7. The Canvasback Duck is an elegant and distinctive diving duck with a long sloping forehead and long, black bill.Unlike many of other ducks, the Canvasback occurs exclusively in North America, but is one of the least abundant ducks on the continent