Examples of bufflehead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In an all-day coastal marsh sit, three of us downed a single lesser scaup and a lone bufflehead. — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, "Eat Like a King," 1 Jan. 2021 Within 100 yards of the trailhead, a blue surgical mask caught the sun in a thicket of reeds, a flock of bufflehead ducks paddling through the calm waters in a V formation just a few yards away. — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, "A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters," 11 Dec. 2020 Newly arrived wild ducks—buffleheads and hooded mergansers—circle in small groups near the shore. — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, "Pandemic Journal, March 23–29," 29 Mar. 2020 And, in fact some swimmers do come in the winter: buffleheads, ring-necked ducks, mergansers and other waterfowl visiting from the north. — New York Times, "The Magic of Swimming Holes," 18 Aug. 2019 Ring-necked ducks, buffleheads and hooded mergansers arrive for the winter. — Houston Chronicle, "Top birding spots around Texas," 10 May 2018 Unlike the chubby bufflehead ducks nearby, the mergansers were low-slung and long, and far more colorful. — Dave Taft, New York Times, "Goth of the Bay," 22 Feb. 2018

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