canvasback

• Female redheads lay an average of 7 to 10 eggs and are notorious for parasitizing canvasback nests.
• Over the past weekend, large numbers of migrant canvasback and northern pintail were observed.
• Northern pintail, shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard are most numerous, but a discerning eye will spot many types of ducks such as wigeon, cinnamon teal, gadwall and varieties of divers like canvasback, ring-necked and ruddy ducks.
• Rafts of canvasback ducks were spotted near The Wetlands portion of the James River Park as well as Shields Lake in Byrd Park. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Two years ago, Richard Dolbeer, chairman of the Bird Strike Committee USA, a voluntary group of government officials and industry executives, wrote the safety board about four incidents in 2005-2007 in which both engines of an airliner were damaged - by yellow-legged gulls in Rome, canvasback ducks in Chicago, starlings in Washington and doves in Ohio.

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