I'm just sending this email to retitle it so that when people respond to it, it won't have part of my name in the response. This duck was discovered by other great birders, I had nothing to do with it… Thanks, Deb Carstensen, Littleton Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:06 PM, Mary Keithler <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/1FFC0784-E5B5-468C-8243-573E06B7D239%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
