Ruddy Duck Definition

noun
A small, North American duck (Oxyura jamaicensis), the breeding male of which has a brownish-red neck and upper body, black crown, white cheeks, and blue bill.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
ruddy duck
Plural:
ruddy-ducks

Origin of Ruddy Duck

  • From ruddy (“reddish") + duck, referring to the rust-coloured body of the male.

    From Wiktionary

Ruddy Duck Sentence Examples

  • Apart from American Coots, we found only one female Ruddy Duck and a few Neotropic cormorants.

  • Wendy was most excited at seeing several herons, but my favorite bird of the day had to be the Ruddy Duck.

  • The two species hybridize and hybrids are fertile, causing genetic introgression of Ruddy Duck genes in the wild population of White-headed Ducks.

  • Scanning the lake produced, for the first time on the weekend, several species of duck including wigeon, pochard and ruddy duck.

  • Each ruddy duck you shoot or poison is a real death.

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