dabbling duck

noun

any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (diving duck ).

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They also sampled the carcass of a wigeon, a dabbling duck, that was found in the nest.

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But perhaps nature is in the house DNA: After all, designer Jean Bousquet who founded the house in 1962, named it after a small, beautifully striped dabbling duck with the same name.

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