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smew (smjuː) [Origin and relation to smee uncertain.] A saw-billed duck (Mergus or Mergellus albellus) belonging to the merganser group; the white nun. The female is known as the red-headed smew.1674 Dent in Ray's Lett. (1718) 21 A Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins. 1678 Ray tr. Willughby's Ornith. 338...
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Smew
The smew has hybridized with the common goldeneye (B. clangula). The smew lives on fish-rich lakes and slow rivers.
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Smee (disambiguation)
Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics (SMEE), a regional chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics
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Shmee (disambiguation)
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smee
smee1 dial. and U.S. (smiː) [Prob. a later form of smeath. It is not clear how either form is related to early mod.Du. smeente (Du. smient), LG. smênt widgeon, G. schmi-, schmü-, schmeiente a small wild duck.] 1. A name variously assigned to the smew, widgeon, pochard, and scaup-duck.1668 Charleton ...
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Mergini
The fish-eating members of this group, such as the mergansers and smew, have serrated edges to their bills to help them grip their prey and are often known goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Genus Mergellus (sometimes included in Mergus)
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shelden
† ˈshelden Obs. Also -in. [app. f. sheld a. (? + ende).] The golden-eye, Clangula glaucion.a 1672 Willughby Ornith. (1678) 28 This was sent us from Cambridge by the title of Shelden, I suppose so denominated from its being particoloured of black and white, that is Sheld. 1674 Dent in Ray's Philos. L...
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Merganser (disambiguation)
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Hooded merganser, a species of duck of the genus Lophodytes
Percival Merganser, a light civil transport aircraft of the late 1940s
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merganser
merganser (mɜːˈgænsə(r)) [mod.L. (Gesner 1555), f. merg-us diver (water-fowl) + anser goose. The name is given by Willughby (1676) and Albin (1731) as Latin, with the Eng. equivalent ‘goosander.’] Any bird of the genus Mergus or subfamily Merginæ, fish-eating ducks of great diving powers, with long ...
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Mergellus
The smew (Mergellus albellus) is the only living species, but an extinct species known as Mergellus mochanovi has also been described from Late Pleistocene
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vare-widgeon
vare-widgeon dial. [f. vair n.1] (See quot.)1813 Montagu Ornith. Dict. Suppl. s.v. Smew, The females and young birds are called in the southern part of Devonshire, Vare-Wigeon, from a supposed similitude about the head to a Weesel, which is denominated Vare.
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Eglwys Nunydd
present include tufted duck and common pochard, and among local birdwatchers it has a reputation for producing locally rare birds such as goosander, smew
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Mergus
The other "aberrant" merganser, the smew (Mergellus albellus), is phylogenetically closer to goldeneyes (Bucephala). Along with the smew and hooded merganser, they are therefore often known as "sawbills".
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Fen Drayton
In particular, gadwall, wigeon, pintail, goldeneye, smew, coot and bittern populations may be seen: it is estimated that 2% of the UK's bittern population , and 4% of the UK's cold weather smew population, reside here, making it an important site.
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Mergellina
Some people say the name derives from "mergoglino", a local name for the smew, others believe it is a corruption of "Mare Giallo", which refers to when
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Kungsbacka Fjord
More than 240 bird species have been noted, including the common redshank, the yellow wagtail, the tufted duck and the rare smew.
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