Word: widgeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end at the Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...