Subject: Hybrid ducks
Date: Jan 19 18:14:19 1999
From: ravenn at premier1.net - ravenn at premier1.net


Last year, at Reifel Refuge there was a male Hooded Merganser who
thought he was a Mallard. He had pair bonded with a female mallard. He
fed with her feeding off of thrown bird seed by people who were visiting
the Refuge. The female Mallard would dabble in the water for seed that
would sink while the Merganser would dive under.

Yvonne Bombardier
Everett, Wa
ravenn at premier1.net