Riva wrote:
>
> The duck is with three ducklings (so presumably breeding plumage) It
> is in the water floating. Looks mostly black except for white on the
> chest and base of the neck. The beak is white mottled with a little
> black. At the base of the beak around the nasal tuft and lores it is
> kind of lumpy annd RED and the red extends around the eyes in a rather
> thick eye ring that really is like a red mask.
>
> Any Ideas? Thanks!
> Randy Joseph
> Seattle WA
> rivaleya at gmail.com <mailto:rivaleya at gmail.com>
>
Sounds like it might be a Muscovy duck. A quick Google search on that
species will turn up a lot of images.

Dale
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Dale Chase
(AKA ravenintherain)
Seattle, Washington
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