Subject: [Tweeters] Duck ID
Date: Feb 13 20:44:32 2007
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


That head pattern is amazing, but the large bill on both the photo on
the website below and the duck at the Platte River surely rule out
White-cheeked Pintail as one of the parents. And of course the
breeding ranges of Gadwall and White-cheeked Pintail don't even come
close, so that's a very unlikely combination except in captivity.

What is additionally amazing is the dominance of Gadwall body plumage
on that bird. I suppose there is something written about the
difference in duck hybrids depending on which species is which
parent, but I don't recall seeing anything like that. Wouldn't a
photo book of waterfowl hybrids be a great Christmas present!
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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:07:03 -0800
From: ". KDB ." <buhrdz at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] re: Duck ID
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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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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