Hi All,

Just a brief update on the bizarre-looking hybrid at Kits Point (which, it
turns out, was seen earlier in November across the entrance to False Creek
at English Bay, so it &/or the flock with which it it is travelling is
moving about). Thanks to links of different birds kindly provided by Joe
Morlan:

http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-253

and Bill & Nancy LaFramboise:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22949601 at N08/2198963126/

and a smashingly good close-up photographed last year at Esquimault Lagoon
by Dave Appleton here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/hybridbirds/discuss/72157623147542006/

the bird can reasonably be presumed to be a Bufflehead X Common Goldeneye
hybrid.

Has anyone an idea of this hybrid's frequency of occurrence over, say, the
last twenty years?

best wishes

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
loblollyboy at gmail.com

Every answer deepens the mystery.
- E.O. Wilson
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