Blue-winged Teal can have bright red eyes (see photos on Birds-eye App). Looks good for BWTE x northern shoveler.
Nick Komar Fort Collins CO > On Mar 25, 2019, at 2:59 AM, 'Deborah Carstensen' via Colorado Birds > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve never seen a cinnamon teal with a crescent on its face. I would go > towards blue winged teal. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 24, 2019, at 9:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I agree with Michael... >> The red eye also leads me to think that Cinnamon Teal is in the mix >> somewhere. Shovelers have yellow eyes and Blue Winged Teal have black eyes, >> so I don't see where else the red eye could come from. Also, Blue-winged >> Teal x Shoveler hybrids normally don't have rusty flanks. I would call it a >> Cinnamon Teal x Northern Shoveler hybrid, but that's just my opinion. I have >> no idea whether it's possible for all three species to be a part of this >> birds background. >> I love hybrids - thanks for the photo! >> Joe Kipper >> Fort Collins >> >>> On Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 2:47:21 PM UTC-6, John Shenot wrote: >>> This morning at 10:30 there was a hybrid duck in the big NW pond at >>> Cottonwood Hollow, the pond with the bench and interpretive sign >>> overlooking it. I added photos to my eBird checklist: >>> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S54174768. >>> >>> This is probably a common hybrid but I know next to nothing about hybrids. >>> It seems to me that we (birders) just assume that if a bird has familiar >>> traits of two species, it must be a hybrid of those two species. But this >>> individual has traits (I think) of Northern Shoveler, Cinnamon Teal, and >>> Blue-winged Teal. I'd be very appreciative if somebody could explain, >>> offline if necessary, why it is in fact an AxB and not an AxC or BxC. Or >>> perhaps it is unidentifiable. If I knew the answer I wouldn't be asking... >>> >>> John Shenot >>> Fort Collins, CO >> >> -- >> 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/1b2bc2fc-a613-41ba-9deb-50d98e20fc6f%40googlegroups.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/59ABC0F9-1A37-429C-8FEF-0DF5628929CA%40aol.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/8AFB93F8-72E4-46CD-AFDE-1EFCF77A834E%40comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
