RE: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks)

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Nunes
birds@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:20:02 -0500 The first thing that came to my mind on the S. Platte duck was that it was a Northern Pintail x Gadwall. The head is som

Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks)

2011-02-02 Thread markchavez
, I went with the Pintail x Wigeon. Mark Chavez Lakewood-Green Mtn http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ - Original Message - From: Rob Parsons To: CObirds List Sent: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:19:28 - (UTC) Subject: Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on

Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks)

2011-02-02 Thread Rob Parsons
Hi all, I totally agree with Christian that the iridescence on the heads of male Northern Pintails is an under-appreciated thing. While I won't rule out a Mallard X N. Pintail ancestry, I think this bird would have to be 3/4 pintail to be of Mallard & N. Pintail ancestry. In addition to C

RE: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks)

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Nunes
^ I have a photo of the same bird from the 19th (Recent Additions) in the gallery below . I was thinking Northern Pintail X American Wigeon. Mark Chavez Lakewood-Green Mtn http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ - Original Message - From: Todd Deininger To: cobirds Sent: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 0

Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver (and comments on ageing and sexing diving ducks)

2011-02-02 Thread coloradodipper
kewood-Green Mtn http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ - Original Message - From: Todd Deininger To: cobirds Sent: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:58:33 - (UTC) Subject: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver William Bond took this photo and placed it on his blog. I can see the Northern

Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver

2011-01-31 Thread markchavez
:33 - (UTC) Subject: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver William Bond took this photo and placed it on his blog. I can see the Northern Pintail, but what else? http://birdsbybill.blogspot.com/ Todd Deininger Longmont, CO "Only the muddy fox lives"

[cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver

2011-01-31 Thread Todd Deininger
William Bond took this photo and placed it on his blog. I can see the Northern Pintail, but what else? http://birdsbybill.blogspot.com/ Todd Deininger Longmont, CO "Only the muddy fox lives" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds"