Anas americana


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Noun1.Anas americana - a widgeon the male of which has a white crownAnas americana - a widgeon the male of which has a white crown
American widgeon, baldpate
Anas penelope, widgeon, wigeon - freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
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The migration chronology of banded mallards might be broadly representative of other dabbling duck species that breed in Alaska, such as the American green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis), American wigeon (Anas americana), and northern pintail (Anas acuta), in which H5Nx was detected at lower latitudes.
Reassortment of influenza a viruses in wild birds in Alaska before H5 Clade 2.3.4.4 outbreaks
From 2004-2006, we collected sera from 1406 wildcaught American wigeon (Anas americana), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), and northern pintail (Anas acuta) ducks at national wildlife refuges (NWRs) in North Dakota and wood ducks (Aix sponsa) at NWRs in South Carolina and Tennessee.
J Wildl Dis.: Survey for West Nile virus antibodies in wild ducks, 2004-06, USA
The Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope; hereafter EUWI), a close relative of the American Wigeon (Anas americana; hereafter AMWI) and Chiloe Wigeon (Anas silbatrix) of North and South America, breeds throughout Northern Eurasia and winters in portions of western Europe, Africa, and India (Johnsgard 1978; Madge and Burn 1988).
Temporal pattern of wetland use by Eurasian and American Wigeon in the Northern Sacramento Valley, California

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