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  • Mystery bird: pink-eared duck, Malacorhynchus membranaceus

    7,000-year-old timbers found beneath MI6 Thames headquarters 2011

  • Ours is a picture of a lamb—sweet, fuzzy, pink-eared—and his open mouth is covered in what appears to be blood.

    Seeing Double: A Photography Power Couple 2011

  • Sometimes called bay ducks, pochards – the tribe Aythyini – are one of four clades that together make up Anatinae, the true duck group (the other anatine clades are Malacorhynchini [pink-eared ducks], Anatini [surface-feeding ducks] and Mergini [seaducks]).

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Sometimes called bay ducks, pochards – the tribe Aythyini – are one of four clades that together make up Anatinae, the true duck group (the other anatine clades are Malacorhynchini [pink-eared ducks], Anatini [surface-feeding ducks] and Mergini [seaducks]).

    The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006

  • For Lopsy, the crafty Setter, she selected a White Rabbit's artless, pink-eared visage.

    Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • And I wasn't one of those pink-eared shivery little white mice who could be intimidated into tears by a frown of disapproval from my imperial mate.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • "Sick 'em, Pete!" cried Mandy, when she found her arms pinioned; and at once there darted out from under the cart a hairy little demon of a dog, mute, mongrelish, pink-eared, which began silent havoc with the corporal's legs.

    The Way of a Man Emerson Hough 1890

  • Before their altercation was over, for it lasted till the early morning, in rushed Rosamond, clutching in her hand a poor little white rabbit, of which she was very fond, and from which, only because it would not come to her when she called it, she was pulling handfuls of fur in the attempt to tear the squealing, pink-eared, red-eyed thing to pieces.

    A Double Story George MacDonald 1864

  • As one lakes region comes to life, another is saved from death OUT at the Menindee Lakes, the drought-parched land is turning green, the pink-eared ducks and gray teal are arriving and the mammals are breeding.

    The Australian | News | 2010

  • As one lakes region comes to life, another is saved from death OUT at the Menindee Lakes, the drought-parched land is turning green, the pink-eared ducks and gray teal are arriving and the mammals are breeding.

    The Australian | News | 2010

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