E. Kridler <ekridler at olympus.net> said;

" ... I
don't recall all what I saw, but remember a Mallard X Goldeneye cross (
cross between subfamilies) and a Pintail X Green-winged Teal cross -
either an ambitious male Teal that preferred a an older and bigger
Pintail female or a desperate or nondiscriminating Pintail male that
preferred a sweet young thing Green-wing female."

i was at chinook's restaurant this past sunday, sitting at a window
and gazing out at the many parked and decaying fishing vessels when
i saw one female mallard, followed by one male mallard and another
"mallard" that looked to be a hybrid of some sort. this presumed
hybrid mallard had a longer-than-usual body, with the normal mallard
sort of markings, except that it had an area on its side that looked
like it had been cut off a green-winged teal and pasted onto
mr mallard. i didn't have my binos, so i couldn't get a better
look at it, but that duck was one weird lookin' dude!

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
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