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gadwall

Small dabbling duck (Anas strepera) that is a popular game bird, found throughout the upper Northern Hemisphere. Its largest breeding populations in North America are in the Dakotas and in Canada's prairie provinces. The gadwall is brownish gray with white patches, visible only during flight, on the rear of the wings. Its preferred diet is stems and leaves of aquatic plants, supplemented by seeds and algae. Gadwalls often live in shallow freshwater ponds and marshes, often in mixed flocks with wigeons. Unlike wigeons, they rarely feed on land.



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Migratory ducks such as widgeons and gadwalls glided across the water early on any given spring morning, only to be gone on their flight north the next day.
The birds, which migrate here, are Geese; Greylag Goose, Ducks, Gadwalls and Mallards, which is a resident of this place while some ofhem, have migrating here.
For recreational contact, birds were assessed by sampling hunter-killed waterfowl (mostly mallards, northern shovelers, gadwalls, green-winged teals, northern pintails, and American widgeons) at check stations in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.
 
 
 
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