Please give the Genus species name of the the "Ringed" teal.
Thanks,
Maureen Ellis me2 at u.washington.edu Univ of WA and Des Moines, WA

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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Kelly Mcallister wrote:

> Tweeters,
>
> I hesitate a bit on this one. Perhaps a waterfowl fancier's
> birds got away. Perhaps there is something else amiss with
> this story.... But, a waterfowl hunter killed what he says are
> two Ringed Teal out of a group of three, somewhere near Sedro
> Woolley. The two dead ducks are reportedly at the taxidermist.
>
> At least two biologists have talked to the man and neither of them
> is dismissing the story. The ducks were not banded.
>
> Kelly McAllister
>
>