Deb Carsten's hybrid duck on South Platte

[Leon Bright]

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

[Mary Keithler]

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

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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

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