Hello Sally,
Looking at the birds dark brown plumage throughout the torso, lack of any
green on the head, and other features. Most Mexican Ducks in the US have
hybrid genes, however this one looks closer to the pure Mexican Duck side
of the spectrum to me.
Ben Sampson
Boulder, CO
On Sunday,
Our Denver Urban Christmas Bird Count tallied 85 species and 31,151 birds.
That's an average number of species, but the count of individuals dropped to
78% of the average of 40,066. We saw big drops for non-native species: Rock
Pigeon (1,031 vs. 2,024 ave.); Starling (652 vs. 4,244
The Eurasian Widgeon was still at Pella Crossing this morning, in among a
large flotilla of American Widgeons, Redheads, Common Mergansers, and a
very busy male Hooded Merganser.
The pond closest to the parking lot was totally frozen this morning, so we
figured if the bird was there, it would
New photo showing speculum of same bird in question
https://ebird.org/checklist/S100849831 To me the speculum looks like
typical Mallard.
Sally Waterhouse
Nathrop, CO
On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 8:19:57 AM UTC-7 Sally Waterhouse wrote:
> Looking for some thoughts on this. The duck has
Looking for some thoughts on this. The duck has been observed by several
birders in Chaffee County just west of the 163 pond hotspot in a small pond
area. Whether this is the same duck reported as a Mexican on Dec. 29 by
Jack Bushong on 163 pond is unknown. After perusing many discussions
