Hi Chris, Thanks for the definitive word on this hybrid duck.
Mary Keithler, Arapahoe County Sent from my iPad > On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Chris Rurik <chrisru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all -- > > This duck has been on the South Platte for at least four winters. It has been > ID'ed as a Northern Shoveler X Gadwall hybrid. See the comments under a photo > of it posted on January 29 to the Colorado Field Ornithologists Facebook > group for more discussion and links to helpful websites. > > Hope this helps, > Chris Rurik > Denver, CO > >> On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:15:58 PM UTC-7, fiddlenurs wrote: >> I'm just sending this email to retitle it so that when people respond to it, >> it won't have part of my name in the response. This duck was discovered by >> other great birders, I had nothing to do with it… >> Thanks, Deb Carstensen, Littleton >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:06 PM, Mary Keithler <mkei...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Leon, >>> >>> Thanks for your input. Certainly the hybrid duck photographed by Rob Raker >>> has characteristics that could be due to a wigeon x pintail combination. I >>> looked through dozens of photos of hybrid ducks and couldn't find any that >>> looked like the specimen Rob saw on the Platte. I still thought that the >>> duck might be a shoveler x gadwall combination. When I searched on that >>> hybrid, the photo I found did look more like Rob's duck than the other >>> photos I found. >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/nanney/480763409/in/photostream/ >>> >>> Perhaps someone with extensive experience with hybrid ducks would care to >>> join the discussion. >>> >>> Mary Keithler, Arapahoe County >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Leon Bright <urr...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Here’s another guess: American wigeon x pintail. Note the scapulars, >>>> tertials and under-tail coverts. What about the absent “pin” tail, and >>>> the white auriculars, you say? Well, umm… >>>> >>>> Leon Bright, Pueblo >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Colorado Birds" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to cobirds+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to cob...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/017901d16a98%24c8f27080%245ad75180%24%40comcast.net. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Colorado Birds" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to cobirds+u...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to cob...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/44CE2A22-E26C-40CC-9293-FD0AC519411F%40gmail.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/C1B84BA0-031B-42AB-AFD7-9D7C40220792%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
