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The American wigeon is a bird of open wetlands, such as wet grassland or marshes with some taller vegetation, and usually feeds by dabbling for plant food or grazing, which it does very readily. While on the water, wigeons often gather with feeding coots and divers and are known to grab pieces of vegetation brought to the surface by diving ...
Mareca is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the wigeons.. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Anas.A molecular phylogentic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus Anas, as then defined, was not monophyletic. [1]
All three wigeon species hybridise in captivity [3] while American and Eurasian wigeons hybridise in the wild. [4] An American wigeon × mallard hybrid has also been recorded. [5] The American wigeon was formerly called the baldpate by ornithologists, and some people still use that name, especially hunters.
English: A flock of American wigeons (Mareca americana) during a courtship flight at the Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex south of Chico, Butte County, California, on December 24, 2023. Nine drakes and one hen (3rd from the left) while overwintering in the Central Valley of California.
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A genus of South American ground spiders; ""Almafuerte" is the pseudonymous [sic] of Pedro Bonifacio Palacios (San Justo 1854 - La Plata 1917), an influential Argentine poet and teacher; the name is also shared with a famous Argentine heavy-metal band leaded [sic] by Ricardo Iorio." [16] Alophomopsis spenceri Girault, 1913: Wasp: Herbert Spencer
A limited "character vs. character" mode would allow characters from other saved games to be loaded in and pitted against the current character. Lastly, there would be one or more ways to retire a character into a life of luxury, thus "winning", but players would need to start a new character if they wanted to continue on in the series.
The sinking of a German U-boat by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was claimed by one of their larger aircraft on 11 July 1942. The Grumman G-44 Widgeon, armed with two depth charges and crewed by Captain Johnny Haggins and Major Wynant Farr, was scrambled when another CAP patrol radioed that they had encountered an enemy submarine, but were returning to base due to low fuel.