Taken today at Kealia Pond NWR, Maui, HI (1 Viewer)

UtahnBirder

Well-known member

• Jan 6, 2018

• #1

One duck and one gull, with multiple pictures for the gull. My guess is some weird domestic mallard and a laughing gull, but I'm particularly bad at ID'ing gulls. Any gull is a rarity in Hawaii, so I want to get the ID right.

https://imgur.com/a/hgUf8

 

Microtus

Maryland USA (he/him)

• Jan 6, 2018

• #2

The duck looks to be a male Mallard; the gull looks like it could be a Laughing.

 

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birdmeister

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• Jan 6, 2018

• #3

Microtus said:

The duck looks to be a male Mallard; the gull looks like it could be a Laughing.

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Agreed.

 

TLeukering

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• Jan 7, 2018

• #4

Any gull is good in Hawaii, and that is a Laugher.

 

Joern Lehmhus

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• Jan 7, 2018

• #5

I´d suspect the duck is a mallard x koloa (hawaiian duck) mix. when was this photographed? just recently?

 

UtahnBirder

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• Jan 9, 2018

• #6

Joern Lehmhus said:

I´d suspect the duck is a mallard x koloa (hawaiian duck) mix. when was this photographed? just recently?

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That's right--the post was made the day the picture was taken. Looking at some of the google image searches for those hybrids, I'd say you might be onto something...

 

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stevethehydra

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• Jan 9, 2018

• #7

I thought it looked rather similar to Mallard x Mexican/Mottled Duck hybrids, so Mallard x Hawaiian Duck makes sense. Possibly hard to disambiguate from "regular" Mallard coming out of eclipse though...