Subject: [Tweeters] Wood duck and Hooded merganser hybrids
Date: Feb 11 21:36:59 2009
From: ROBERT L BOGGS - raglmuf at msn.com


According to Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World, by Eugene McCarthy, on page 69, there are 2 species of accounts of this mix.

They are "NHR" "Natural hybridization reported. Hybridization has been reported to occur under natural circumstances".

Also: "BRO" "Breeding range overlap".

JRagland