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White headed brown duck - who am I? (1 Viewer)
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Katy Penland
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It looks a bit like an escapee ruddy shelduck but with a little more white than I think it's supposed to have. Or it's one of those famous domesticated hybrid cococtions about which I know absolutely nothing.
LzyPhotographer
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Gosh you're fast! Thank you.
Katy Penland
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LzyPhotographer said:
LOL! I didn't even look at what time your msg posted, I just logged on myself for the first time today.
I hope somebody else chimes in on this because I'm not 100% sure about the ruddy shelduck, since it's a non-native sp.
Rasmus Boegh
BF member
San Diego Zoo missing a duck?
No weird hybrid, but (as mentioned) a good Ruddy Shelduck. Females have more white on the head than the males (though both have an obvious light head compared to to the body).
Rasmus
No weird hybrid, but (as mentioned) a good Ruddy Shelduck. Females have more white on the head than the males (though both have an obvious light head compared to to the body).
Rasmus
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Katy Penland
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Thanks for the confirmation on that. I was a little worried about what looked like more white feathers in the back/wings than I thought a ruddy would have, but maybe its feathers were a bit ruffled from having escaped. 
Joern Lehmhus
Well-known member
As Rasmus said, totally o.K.
Wing coloration / pattern of flying ruddy shelducks is a black and white pattern , similar to the wing coloration/pattern of muscovy(wild or wild-coloured ones!); allthough you seldom see that in the sitting birds, as the wings are mainly hidden by the body feathers. But if you have both birds freeflying, they sometimes react on each others wing pattern like on the wing pattern of their own species and fly with them.
Wing coloration / pattern of flying ruddy shelducks is a black and white pattern , similar to the wing coloration/pattern of muscovy(wild or wild-coloured ones!); allthough you seldom see that in the sitting birds, as the wings are mainly hidden by the body feathers. But if you have both birds freeflying, they sometimes react on each others wing pattern like on the wing pattern of their own species and fly with them.
