pink-eared duck

• Rhymes: -ʌk

pink-eared duck (plural pink-eared ducks)

1. A species of duck, Malacorhynchus membranaceus, endemic to Australia.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

     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.