Hi Chris, Thanks for the definitive word on this hybrid duck.
Mary Keithler, Arapahoe County Sent from my iPad > On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Chris Rurik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all -- > > This duck has been on the South Platte for at least four winters. It has been > ID'ed as a Northern Shoveler X Gadwall hybrid. See the comments under a photo > of it posted on January 29 to the Colorado Field Ornithologists Facebook > group for more discussion and links to helpful websites. > > Hope this helps, > Chris Rurik > Denver, CO > >> On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:15:58 PM UTC-7, fiddlenurs wrote: >> 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/C1B84BA0-031B-42AB-AFD7-9D7C40220792%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
