| NOUN | a long-tailed duck | long-tailed ducks / long-tailed duck |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- An important feature of the winter bird life is the great diversity of wildfowl. A variety of duck, such as common eider and long-tailed duck are found in the shallow water around Lewis.
- Predators of "Bombus polaris" include the Buff-breasted sandpiper ("Tryngites subruficollis"), common eider ("Somateria mollissima"), and Long-tailed duck ("Clangula hyemalis"), which will either eat the bees or feed them to their young.
- It is named after the long-tailed duck ("Clangula hyemalis"), a migrant to Svalbard.
- The long-tailed duck is gregarious, forming large flocks in winter and during migration.
- Add to this, thousands of common eider and long-tailed duck, then you have one of the largest concentrations of wildfowl in Norway.
- Many of the lakes hold breeding wildfowl, with species like long-tailed duck being found.
- The Penguin Beach was built in 2014 and features African penguins and multiple species of duck including the long-tailed duck, Baer's pochard, spectacled eider and the harlequin duck.
- In and around the lakes there are plenty of Anatinae, such as long-tailed duck, Eurasian teal and common scoter as well as many waders, which include red-necked phalarope, ruff, Temminck's stint and common redshank.
- The surname is derived from the name of the lake "Angelijärvi", itself derived from a Kemi Sámi word referring to the long-tailed duck (compare Inari Sámi "áŋálâh").
- The bufflehead was formerly treated as the only member of the genus (sometimes unnecessarily changed to "Charitonetta") while the goldeneyes were incorrectly placed in "Clangula" (as "Clangula americana"), the genus of the long-tailed duck, which at that time was placed in "Harelda".
- The name "Cacaoui" is a variant of "kakawi", the local name of the long-tailed duck ("Clangula hyemalis").
- For example, in the long-tailed duck, the leg and wing bones are not pneumatic, in contrast with some of the other bones, while loons and puffins have even more massive skeletons with no aired bones.
- Long-tailed duck ("Harelda glacialis") frequent the area.
- ... : "long-tailed duck") was the lead ship of the [...] of arctic patrol cutter in the Royal Danish Navy.
- In the Uig hills, it is possible to spot both golden and white-tailed eagles.
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