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==Habitat== The Labrador duck migrated annually, wintering off the coasts of [[New Jersey]] and [[New England]] in the eastern [[United States]], where it favored southern sandy coasts, sheltered bays, harbors, and inlets, and breeding in [[Labrador]] and northern [[Quebec]] in the summer.<ref name="gap">{{cite book|title=A Gap in Nature|last=Flannery|first=Tim|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|year=2001|isbn=0871137976|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gapinnature00timf/page/60 60β61]|url=https://archive.org/details/gapinnature00timf/page/60}} </ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chilton |first1=Glen |last2=Sorenson |first2=Michael D. |date=2007 |editor-last=Winker |editor-first=K. |title=Genetic Identification of Eggs Purportedly From the Extinct Labrador Duck (''Camptorhynchus labradorius'') |url=https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/124/3/962/5562812 |journal=The Auk |language=en |volume=124 |issue=3 |pages=962β968 |doi=10.1093/auk/124.3.962 |issn=1938-4254}}</ref> [[John James Audubon]]'s son reported seeing a nest belonging to the species in Labrador. Some believe that it may have laid its eggs on the islands in the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]]. The breeding biology of the Labrador duck is largely unknown.
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