Subject: Unidentified Duck
Date: Jan 23 21:13:40 1999
From: Gaylord Mink - gmink at bentonrea.com


Saturday (Jan 23rd) while visiting the Whitcomb
Unit of the Umatilla Wildlife Refuge on the
Columbia River in southcentral WA, I saw and
filmed a pair of unfamiliar ducks that I have not
been able to identify using various identification
books. I would greatly appreciate help from the
experts ( or non experts) among this group.
Fortunately the pair came close enough to get
reasonably close video shots using a 5x
teleconverter. The four images (3 male and 1
female) which are posted at
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/minkgi show most of
the details with reasonable accuracy.
Thanks for any help.
While you're at the web site look around. Some
new images have been posted and others will be
posted over the next week..