Hi Leon, Thanks for your input. Certainly the hybrid duck photographed by Rob Raker has characteristics that could be due to a wigeon x pintail combination. I looked through dozens of photos of hybrid ducks and couldn't find any that looked like the specimen Rob saw on the Platte. I still thought that the duck might be a shoveler x gadwall combination. When I searched on that hybrid, the photo I found did look more like Rob's duck than the other photos I found.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nanney/480763409/in/photostream/ Perhaps someone with extensive experience with hybrid ducks would care to join the discussion. Mary Keithler, Arapahoe County Sent from my iPad > On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Leon Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here’s another guess: American wigeon x pintail. Note the scapulars, > tertials and under-tail coverts. What about the absent “pin” tail, and the > white auriculars, you say? Well, umm… > Leon Bright, Pueblo > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/017901d16a98%24c8f27080%245ad75180%24%40comcast.net. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/44CE2A22-E26C-40CC-9293-FD0AC519411F%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
