How to Use scaup in a Sentence

scaup

noun

• In an all-day coastal marsh sit, three of us downed a single lesser scaup and a lone bufflehead.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
• Lake Davidson gave up six red-breasted mergansers and a greater scaup, both nice ducks to find.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 Jan. 2018
• Hunters will be relegated to one scaup per day, down from the three that could be taken last season.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 23 May 2020
• Hunters would be allowed to harvest only one scaup per day, down from the three that could be taken last season.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Of the 10 duck species surveyed, all except for pintail and scaup are above long-term averages.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
• The scaup-like waterfowl has been hanging out with rafts of diver ducks for a couple weeks near Milwaukee.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
• But pintails, lesser scaup, and some other ducks have seen population declines in the recent decades.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
• Lesser scaups do form pair bonds, and attempt forced copulations with other females somewhat less often.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Still, there were many thousands of divers on the bay, mostly scaup but also redheads, buffleheads, common goldeneyes and canvasbacks.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
• As cold snaps arrive, those early birds will move on and more migrating mallards, black ducks, and gadwall will show up, along with divers like scaup and canvasback, and dark geese, too.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
• The frigid cold of January takes him to the Potomac River, dodging ice flows and shooting scaup from the layout boats.
  — Drew Palmer, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2020
• This year's stamp features a drake lesser scaup painted by Richard Clifton of Milford, Delaware.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2021
• Harris is a repeat winner in the Golden State competition, having claimed top honors in 2014 with his depiction of a lesser scaup duck.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 July 2017