dabbling duck造句

• Loons, diving ducks, penguins and auks pursue their prey underwater, using their wings or feet for propulsion, Geese and dabbling ducks are primarily grazers.
• This dabbling duck breeds across northern areas of Eurasia south to about Poland and Mongolia, and in Canada, Alaska and the Midwestern United States.
• Its broad, flat bill was used to filter food ( small plants and animals ) from the water, in the manner of today's dabbling ducks.
• Later, it was assigned to the " perching ducks ", a paraphyletic assemblage of waterfowl most of which are intermediate between dabbling ducks and shelducks.
• Dabbling ducks, also known as puddle ducks, feed in shallow water, dipping their heads just below the surface to eat plants, insects and small fish.
• They include the dabbling ducks of the genus " Anas ", the shelducks and the sheldgeese, the extremely common Egyptian goose, and the spur-winged goose.
• The Eurasian teal is often called simply the "'teal "'due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range.
• Blue-winged teal are among the last dabbling ducks to nest, The nest is a shallow depression on the ground lined with grass and down, usually surrounded by vegetation.
• Diving ducks do not walk as well on land as the dabbling ducks; their legs tend to be placed further back on their bodies to help propel them when underwater.
• Usually placed with the dabbling ducks ( Anatinae ), this species may actually be closer to shelducks and belong in the subfamily Tadorninae; its closest relative is possibly the maned duck.