gooseling

I reared her myself—my little white gooseling;

1898, William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints:


goosie

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-goosie.wav


northern pintail

en-noun

northern pintail (plural northern pintails)

A large duck of the species Anas acuta, of wide geographic distribution.

бабыщкӏэпсы́гъуэ

babəśkʼɛpsə́ğʷɛ


pintail duck

Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.


sheldgoose

Any of several larger bird species in the subfamily Tadorninae of the duck family Anatidae.


Hissian

Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.


surf duck

Melanitta perspicillata
Melanitta perspicillata#Translingual


surf scoter

A species of sea duck, Melanitta perspicillata, which breeds in northern North America.


snow goose

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

A goose of the species Chen caerulescens, native to North America.


roan duck

(obsolete) A Rouen duck, a breed of domestic duck.


Eurasian wigeon

Eurasian wigeon (plural Eurasian wigeons)

/jəˌɹeɪʒənˈwɪd͡ʒən/

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

Mareca penelope, a species of dabbling duck.


whio

The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) of New Zealand.


rosybill

Netta peposaca
Netta peposaca#Translingual

The rosy-billed pochard, Netta peposaca.


greenwing

Anas carolinensis
Anas carolinensis#Translingual

A common and widespread duck in North America, Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis


mulard

Only male mulards are used in foie gras production; the females' livers are considered “too veiny.”

2016, Michaela DeSoucey, Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food, page 49:

A domestic duck that is a hybrid of the Pekin duck and Muscovy duck.


bargoose

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

(dated, UK, dialect, Southern England) The common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna.


Egyptian goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca
Alopochen aegyptiaca#Translingual

A goose of the species Alopochen aegyptiaca.


New Zealand swan

New Zealand swan (plural New Zealand swans)

Cygnus atratus sumnerensis, an extinct swan from the Chatham Islands and the South Island of New Zealand.


eiderduck

Free and happy as a bird I flew over the billows, in the pilot's light yawl we cruised about among the skerries shooting ducks, eider-ducks, and seals, in his deck-boat we steered out far to sea trolling for mackerel, and when he got a ship to pilot in, I sailed the boat home, sometimes alone, sometimes in company with the pilot's boy.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:


Gressingham duck

Gressingham duck (plural Gressingham ducks)

Named after the village of Gressingham in Lancashire, England, where they were first bred.

A kind of duck bred from a cross of mallards and Pekin ducks.


guckling

A young or small guck (goose–duck hybrid).


pink-eared duck

pink-eared duck (plural pink-eared ducks)

The highly nomadic pink-eared duck is likely to be found over a vast area but depends for its living on floodwaters, which are, of course, ephemeral.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

A species of duck, Malacorhynchus membranaceus, endemic to Australia.


Cape Barren goose

Cape Barren goose (plural Cape Barren geese)

Another species that seems to have been saved from immediate danger is the curious but handsome Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) which survives on islands off the southern coast of Australia.

Cereopsis novaehollandiae
Cereopsis novaehollandiae#Translingual

An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.


blue duck

Trout, which have been introduced to New Zealand waterways, may also pose a threat to blue ducks since they almost certainly compete with them for the aquatic insects on which the birds depend.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

Any of species Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos of ducks native to New Zealand.


Auckland Islands merganser

Auckland Islands merganser (plural Auckland Islands mergansers)

The most curious aspect of the Auckland Islands merganser was its distribution, which at the time of discovery was very limited.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 87:

An extinct species of merganser, Mergus australis.


old wife

From Middle English ald wyf, eld wiif, olde wyffe.

A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)


bargander

Thanet has abundance of wild-fowl in a severe winter; and a bird, called the bargander, in Latin, chemaloper, often frequents the marshes and waters in it.

1801, The New Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Guide:

Here he sees the whirlings of the ducks, hears the booming of the bitterns, the scream of the heron, the whistle of the plover; sees the figure of the wild geese, the deceit of the lapwing, the variegated beauty of the bargander, the single circling of the curlew, the rapid flight of the teal, the more noisy rush of the dunbird, and listens to the pleasing call of the widgeon: -- these are the varieties which set the embers of his soul on fire.

1829 November, “Wild Fowl Shooting”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 23, page 162:

Well, we remained at Petala from the 16th to the 24th -- eight shooting days, and killed between us sixty-seven and a-half brace of woodcock, twenty- seven brace of teal, thirty-three brace of widgeon, fifteen brace of ducks, seven and a-half brace of geese, two brace of sea-pheasants, one and a-half brace of barganders and one hare; so far as we were concerned, (that is, my friend and I) we would have been well satisfied to remain for another eight days; but below stairs the rumblings of a coming storm, the premonitory symptoms of a mutiny, at length made themselves so distince, that it was absurd to attempt to feign ignorand any longer: there was nothing for it but to never ourselves like brave men for the coming struggle.

1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 146:

And such egs not only Doves do bring, but house hens also, Partridges, Peahens, Geese, and Brants, or the female Barganders.

1937, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 12:


common pochard

common pochard (countable and uncountable, plural common pochards)

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual

A diving duck of temperate and cool Eurasia (Aythya ferina)

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ halchíiʼii


torrent duck

The mountain lakes are fed by streams that are frozen in winter but change overnight into raging torrents – the turbulent habitat of the torrent duck.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:

Merganetta armata
Merganetta armata#Translingual

A species of duck, Merganetta armata, found near fast-flowing rivers in the Andes.


upland goose

Male upland geese are highly territorial and will battle it out with any intruders.

Chloephaga picta
Chloephaga picta#Translingual

A species of sheldgoose, Chloephaga picta, found in temperate grasslands.


black-headed duck

black-headed duck (plural black-headed ducks)

Heteronetta atricapilla
Heteronetta atricapilla#Translingual

A South American duck of freshwater habitats, Heteronetta atricapilla, known for laying its eggs in the nests of other ducks.


tree duck

Any of the birds in the genus Dendrocygna of whistling ducks, which are in the family Anatidae with the ducks, geese and swans, but in their own subfamily.


loggerhead duck

loggerhead duck (plural loggerhead ducks)

Tachyeres brachypterus
Tachyeres brachypterus#Translingual

Tachyeres brachypterus, a shellfish-eating duck of the Falkland Islands; a poor diver, incapable of true flight.


coscoroba

Not certain. From a local South American (perhaps specifically Chilean) name, which probably entered English via Spanish; perhaps related to Tupi casaroba, saroba.

Their bills and legs are pink. The two babies are very light grey with dark markings. The coscorobas built a nest in February with twigs and brush provided by their keepers. The female laid two eggs, but one rolled into the pool and the other [...]

The coscorobas have a wonderfully detached, rather languid manner of rising from the water and flying, well befitting their aristocratic air. Graceful, too, in their smaller proportion were the brown or Chilean pintails, [...]

1969, Sidney Dillon Ripley, A paddling of ducks:

The history of the coscorobas at the Bronx Zoo is of particular interest because they were among the earliest acquisitions to the society's bird collection; four coscorobas from Brazil arrived on October 2, 1899, just a little over one month before [...]

The blacks produced four cygnets, the black-necks three, and the coscorobas six. Only one black swan cygnet died. Two coscoroba cygnets, unable to compete with their siblings, were taken at 28 days and hand-reared.

1977, National Zoological Park (U.S.), Annual Report - National Zoological Park

A bird of the genus Coscoroba, the only swan not belonging to Cygnus.


coscoroba swan

The coscoroba swan is the smallest swan, and it is recognized by its bright-red, flattened, ducklike bill and its red legs, which are the longest in relation to body size of any swan species. Coscoroba swans share some characteristics of whistling ducks [...]. Consequently, many authorities regard the coscoroba swan as a sister species to true swans; the coscoroba swan bears the closest affinities to the whistling ducks.

2001, Catharine E. Bell, Encyclopedia of the World's Zoos, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1184:


greater white-fronted goose

greater-white-fronted goose (plural greater white-fronted geese)

greater-white-fronted goose (canonical)
greater white-fronted geese (plural)

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual


spur-winged goose

spur-winged goose (plural spur-winged geese)

Plectropterus gambensis
Plectropterus gambensis#Translingual

An anatid bird native to sub-Saharan Africa, Plectropterus gambensis.


black scoter

Melanitta americana
Melanitta americana#Translingual

Melanitta americana, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


common scoter

Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra#Translingual

Melanitta nigra, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


white-headed duck

white-headed duck (plural white-headed ducks)

Oxyura leucocephala
Oxyura leucocephala#Translingual

Oxyura leucocephala, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


pink-footed goose

pink-footed goose (plural pink-footed geese)

Anser brachyrhynchus
Anser brachyrhynchus#Translingual

Anser brachyrhynchus, a goose that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, etc.


sea robin

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


burrow duck

A sheldrake (Tadorna tadorna) or bergander.


Emden goose

Named after the town of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany.

A goose of a domestic breed thought to have its origins around the North Sea region, in the Netherlands and Germany.


robin dipper

(regional, obsolete) The bufflehead duck.


ducklet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


East Indie

A domestic duck of an ornamental bantam breed thought to have originated in the United States.


pinkfoot

pink-footed goose
pink-footed goose#English


Eurasian teal

Anas crecca, a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Palearctic and migrates south in winter.


ring-necked duck

ring-necked duck (plural ring-necked ducks)

Aythya collaris
Aythya collaris#Translingual

Aythya collaris, a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes


lesser white-fronted goose

lesser white-fronted goose (plural lesser white-fronted geese)

Anser erythropus
Anser erythropus#Translingual

Anser erythropus, a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


tundra bean goose

tundra bean goose (plural tundra bean geese)

Anser serrirostris
Anser serrirostris#Translingual

Any goose of species Anser serrirostris, that breeds in northern Siberia.


cackling goose

Branta hutchinsii
Branta hutchinsii#Translingual

Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.


red-breasted goose

red-breasted goose (plural red-breasted geese)

Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis#Translingual

Branta ruficollis, a species of goose from Eurasia, with a large rust-colored area on its breast and throat.


American black duck

American black duck (plural American black ducks)

Anas rubripes
Anas rubripes#Translingual

Anas rubripes, a large dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.


green goose

The Spring is neare when greene geese are a breeding.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

My green Goose for this last Entertainment cost but 15s.

A young goose, especially under four years old.


swaness

One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan. She makes a lovely mother! She and the cat are our ideal earthly types of the maternal relation. The mere human mother is an awkward thing alongside either of these creatures. To see the swan with her gray cygnets sailing about is not much more in itself than if she were a goose and goslings; but when she takes a mind to give the little things a ride, then we see riding pic-a-back “elevated,” as the newspapers say of circus-riding, “to the rank of a Fine Art.”

1873, “Central Park”, in Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 685, column 2:

On Thursday we go down to Celbridge, where with memories of Swift and the wretched and foolish Vanessa and in company with a beautiful swan and swaness, which bring their babies to the lawn to be admired and duly fed, I am going to rest and recuperate for the next five weeks and try to remember out of this awful time only the kindness and sympathy that has been shown to us by so many Irish friends.

1916, Mrs. Hamilton Norway [i.e., Mary Louisa Norway], The Sinn Fein Rebellion as They Saw It, pages 98–99:

It was in June, 1922, while Bill was making his toilet that there came out of the west, and landed nearby, one of the most beautiful swanesses that you ever saw. From her dress and appearance, she was some high born lady. Bill was rather surprised when he discovered the visitor, and naturally, he called on her and displayed courtesy that only a swan can show.

1923 May 17, John Thomson, “Bard of Avon Pens Love Letter For Disconsolate Bachelor Swan: Mayor Thomson Seeks Aid Aid of Commissioner Pittenger For Old Bill, Badly Beaten After Attempt to Steal One of Bamford’s Harem Beauties”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, thirty-seventh year, number 117, Asbury Park, N.J., page 9, column 2:

To the four very willing swanesses of Egypt, Mass., Gloomy Gus, the wan swan from California, is just a pain in the neck. And a pain in a swan’s neck is a long, long pain. Trouble is: Gus hasn’t made passes at any of the lasses. Grieving ever since the death of his mate, with whom he used to navigate Forest Lawn’s lake, Gus was flown east this week in hopes that he would find a new mate in one of four maiden swans at the Chase Bird farm in Egypt, near Boston.

1947 April 19, “Non-Necking Swan Swain Pain In Neck of Unpecked Swanees”, in Valley Times, volume XI, number 94, North Hollywood, Calif., page 2, column 5:

“[…]You were bored anyway and you started drinking and then there were the women. All those ‘we’re just good friends’ women.” “Oh, for God’s sake, Deborah, stuff like that, it’s not important. Can’t you understand? What’s a man supposed to be? Some goddamn swan that mates once for life?” “A lot of men do and you can bet it’s what the swaness prefers.”

1976, Ilka Chase, Dear Intruder, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 5:


duckess

Coordinate term: drake

But the thrust that got Eustace in the pin feathers was: “I know why you’re such a model drake,—it’s because your wife is the only duckess in the barnyard.” “Not at all!” he replied. “The principles for which I stand are absolute. They would be the same if there were a hundred duckesses besides Gertrude!”

1920, Lawton Mackall, “Beyond the Paling”, in Scrambled Eggs, Stewart & Kidd Company, page 37:

And here come Sophie and her four offsprings which we have been unable thus far to segregate into ducks and duckesses. Manchester, the biggest of the lot, makes a specialty of pecking at my shoelaces.

1938 September 17, “From the Editor’s Easy Chair”, in Welford Beaton, editor, Hollywood Spectator, thirteenth year, volume 13, number 17, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Mental Meanderings”, page six, column 2:

Harold does not like to shoot little ducks and duckesses himself, but he got some swell camera shots of some of his friends in action.

1953, The Fortnightly Review of the Chicago Dental Society, page 18, column 2:

Three duckesses had fluffy, little broods parading along behind, ready to claim their waterfront real estate as soon as the ice stopped being ice.

2012, Robert L. Payne, A Side Order of Truth, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 481:


bar-headed goose

bar-headed goose (plural bar-headed geese)

Anser indicus
Anser indicus#Translingual


lesser whistling duck

lesser whistling duck (plural lesser whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna javanica
Dendrocygna javanica#Translingual

Dendrocygna javanica, a whistling duck that breeds in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.


lesser whistling teal

lesser whistling teal (plural lesser whistling teals)

lesser whistling duck
lesser whistling duck#English


spotted whistling duck

spotted whistling duck (plural spotted whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna guttata
Dendrocygna guttata#Translingual

A species of whistling duck, Dendrocygna guttata (family Anatidae), of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.


wandering whistling duck

wandering whistling duck (plural wandering whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna arcuata
Dendrocygna arcuata#Translingual

Dendrocygna arcuata, a species of whistling duck.


cotton pygmy goose

cotton pygmy goose (plural cotton pygmy geese)

Nettapus coromandelianus
Nettapus coromandelianus#Translingual

A small perching duck of species Nettapus coromandelianus.


mud duck

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

(zoology) The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata).


perching duck

(colloquial) Any species of ducks distinguished by their readiness to perch high in trees.


Brazilian teal

Amazonetta brasiliensis
Amazonetta brasiliensis#Translingual


eider goose

And that will mean farewell to the edelweiss, adieu the eider goose.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 297:

Somateria mollissima
Somateria mollissima#Translingual

The common eider (Somateria mollissima).


crested duck

Lophonetta specularioides
Lophonetta specularioides#Translingual

A duck of species Lophonetta specularioides, of South America.


Hawaiian duck

Anas wyvilliana
Anas wyvilliana#Translingual

Anas wyvilliana, a bird endemic to Hawaii.


hooded merganser

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.

2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-30:

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.


manky mallard

Said to have been coined by British birder Charlie Moores.

A mallard bred from wild mallards and domestic ducks, with variable and uneven plumage patterns.

anas unox

mallard of mixed wild and domestic stock


Chinese goose

The domestic goose Anser cygnoides domesticus.


kelp goose

Chloephaga hybrida
Chloephaga hybrida#Translingual

A goose (Chloephaga hybrida), native to southern South America.


New Zealand goose

New Zealand goose (plural New Zealand geese)

A large bird of the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, endemic to New Zealand.


speckled teal

Anas flavirostris
Anas flavirostris#Translingual

Anas flavirostris, a South American teal.


yellow-billed teal

yellow-billed teal (plural yellow-billed teals)


drakeling

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


white-winged scoter

white-winged scoter (plural white-winged scoters)

Melanitta deglandi
Melanitta deglandi#Translingual

Any of species Melanitta deglandi of ducks, that breed in Alaska and western Canada, wintering in coastal North America.


blue-billed duck

blue-billed duck (plural blue-billed ducks)

A species of stiff-tailed duck, Oxyura australis, endemic to southern Australia including Tasmania.


coween

long-tailed duck
long-tailed duck#English


Black East Indian

Black East Indian (plural Black East Indians)