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Wigeon Mareca penelope (formerly Anas penelope)

This is no pastime for the warm-weather hunter. To seek out your quarry you need to be prepared to face the cold, inhospitable places, wrapped up well against the winter weather. Huddled uncomfortably, you wait in the place of concealment that you moved into during darkness to await dawn and the morning flight back from the inland feeding grounds. A faint light starts to reveal the mudflats around you and then

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