How to Use scaup in a Sentence

scaup

noun

• The scaup daily bag limit this season is two birds per day.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2020
• Lake Davidson gave up six red-breasted mergansers and a greater scaup, both nice ducks to find.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Hunting - Bay hunters found limits of redheads and scaup.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
• As the researchers expected, the lesser scaups housed in groups grew longer penises than those housed in pairs.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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 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
• 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
• Northern shovelers and scaup were tied for third at 4.4 million each.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2017
• The four top ducks in the annual Wisconsin hunter survey are mallards, wood ducks, blue-winged teal and scaup, or bluebills.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But pintails, lesser scaup, and some other ducks have seen population declines in the recent decades.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Lesser scaups do form pair bonds, and attempt forced copulations with other females somewhat less often.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017

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