DCHP-3

wood duck

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1866 quote.

Quotations

1832
The Wood Duck is so termed from lighting in the trees; and is, of course, very easily shot.
1866
The Wood-duck (Aix sponsa) which is called also the "Summer duck" and "Tree duck" is not only one of the most beautiful of all its family, but is excelled in plumage by few of the feathered race.
1955
Often the vacant nest-chamber of a flicker is used by a Wood duck: sometimes the abandoned cradle of a Pileated woodpecker is occupied.
1962
. . . the hunter must be able to distinguish between the wood duck and all other species.