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Cinereous

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #1

This is a photo I took yesterday of an odd looking Hybrid.. I think it's part Red Crested Pochard.. Any ideas??

 

dwatsonbirder

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #2

Wigeon x Gadwall would be my guess.

 

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stevethehydra

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #3

Certainly looks like there is Gadwall in it... possibly not Wigeon though. The most similar one online that I can find is the one from Colorado about halfway down this page: http://birdhybrids.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/gadwall-x-mallard.html which is quite different from the other Gadwall x Mallards there (though it is a variable combination - I wonder if that one is a backcross i.e. 3/4 Gadwall and only 1/4 Mallard?), but Gadwall x Pintail is also somewhat similar: http://birdhybrids.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/gadwall-x-northern-pintail.html

Gadwall x Wigeon seems to have a quite different head: http://birdhybrids.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/gadwall-x-eurasian-wigeon.html

 

Joern Lehmhus

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #4

It is a red-Crested Pochard x Northern Pintail in some kind of intersex plumage.

Isn´t that the same Red-creasted Pochard x Northern Pintail (from Slimbridge I think?), that has been at BF already a few times?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53444368@N05/31366197054/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53444368@N05/31366192894/

https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/unusual-hybrid.644465/

Hybrids RCP with mallard may look somewhat similar , but have for example a differnet bill pattern .

 

Joern Lehmhus

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #5

Here on Dave Appletons website is a male plumaged bird of this cross, see the similarity in bill pattern :

http://birdhybrids.blogspot.de/2015/03/northern-pintail-x-red-crested-pochard.html

 

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Cinereous

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• Nov 28, 2017

• #6

Joern Lehmhus said:

Isn´t that the same Red-creasted Pochard x Northern Pintail (from Slimbridge I think?), that has been at BF already a few times?

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Yes it is... I didn't realise it had been on here... I never thought to ask the staff.. I forgot I took a photo of it.. So I decided to ask members on BF what they thought it was.. Cheers.. Thank you all for your help.. It's interesting to seem odd looking hybrids posted on the links you all provided...