Hello, The following paragraph was posted on birdforum.net reagrding the
"funny duck". Check out the link for an interesting photo of what was
identified as a Gadwall X Shoveler cross (how it was pegged to these 2
species I don't know).
Keith Brady
Olympia, WA

Difficult to see, but I think this is a shoveler x gadwall hybrid.
They develop this strange head pattern reminiscent of a white cheeked
pintail (very misleading), but not seen in any of the real parent species.
See an example here:
http://www.ascabird.org/gadshov.jpg

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