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redhead

redhead

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A North American diving duck with a grey body and reddish-brown head
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛdˌhɛd/
  • US
translation icon : ánade americano (Aythya americana)
  • Within about 60 seconds, approximately 1,000 redheads landed in our decoys right in front of us.
  • redhead duck
  • redheads and mallards

Examples

  • After an hour or two, we’d taken our legal limit of redheads, as well as a pintail or two.

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  • In the lake on the 111 side, there was a redhead close to the causeway.

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  • Divers—bluebills, redheads, goldeneyes, and bufflehead—are rolling, albeit slowly, onto Upper Midwest big waters.

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  • We stood up in our blinds to watch the clouds of redheads fly over us, picking out the shiny, rusted heads of the drakes and the subtle browns and grays of the hens.

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  • At the lake, we saw several redheads diving for their food among the reeds.

  • The redhead is easily recognizable by its distinctive reddish-brown head during the breeding season.

  • Hunters often seek redheads in the wetlands because of their unique coloring and behavior.

Synonyms

Aythya americana
vsredhead
  • Specialized
9.9

A diving duck from North America with a grey and black body and a reddish brown head

is the common English name used instead of the Latin term

Surface Forms

redhead singular
redheads plural

Morphology

redhead = red + head (transparent) = red + head

Species common name formed descriptively from 'red' + 'head' meaning 'having a red head'; the descriptive relation is straightforward though it denotes a specific duck species.

Etymology

The word redhead for the duck comes from the bird's bright red 'head', especially in the male, so people named the bird for its red head color.