All, Here’s several links (some of the same individual in British Columbia, Canada) showing various combinations of the hybrid between Common Goldeneye and Bufflehead. This hybrid is consistent with the duck Diane photographed.
I haven’t posted links to COBirds but I think this should work: http://tgreybirds.com/Pages/BuffleheadXCommonGoldeneyep.html https://www.birdimagency.com/en/image/Hybrid%3A-Common-Goldeneye-x-Bufflehead-46116.html http://birdhybrids.blogspot.com/2015/03/bufflehead-x-common-goldeneye.html?m=1 https://wgppsphoto.smugmug.com/Flora-and-Fauna/Birds/i-959VjKD Christian Hagenlocher Buena Vista, CO Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 8, 2018, at 5:02 PM, 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds > <cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > We looked at Diane Roberts' photo of the hybrid duck at Walker Pit - she saw > it Thursday, we saw something practically identical today, probably the same > bird. Her photo shows the black cap covering the eye whereas we could see > more white in the face so that the eye popped out as a black dot in the white. > She deems it a Bufflehead/Com. Goldeneye hybrid. Can someone steer us to a > source for that? > Thanks to Christian Hagenlocher for steering us to the picture (on the CFO > Bird Alert Facebook page). > > Hugh & Urligng > -- > 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/2039086386.1163793.1544313742319%40mail.yahoo.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/0A1E63CE-9DE4-4190-BD3A-72E50C0D9406%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
