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Saturday 7th January 2006, 19:47
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Need help identifying a bird
Hello everyone. I'm a relatively new bird watcher and live in NYC. I just saw a duck that I can not identify from my Sibley's guide. If anyone has any thoughts, it would be much appreciated. It's the large duck with white neck, black head and orange bill..
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Saturday 7th January 2006, 19:52
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Saturday 7th January 2006, 23:51
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Hi, Michael! I see this is your first post, so a warm welcome to you from all of us on staff here at BirdForum!
Richard's right about this being a domestic hybrid duck. I'll leave it to others as to its possible parentage.  |
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Sunday 8th January 2006, 00:23
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Why does a Black-headed Gull have a brown head...
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This is how I arrived at the Birdforum - a few months ago my brother & I were driving past a wildlife park and he foolishly asked if I wanted to have a look - we immediately identified Mallard, Grebe, Coot, Mute swan, Moorhen only to be stumped by various ducks like the one you saw - armed with photo's I enquired here about my 'rare' ducks and was most dissapointed to have them labeled 'farmyard'.
I still love them especially the white ones which look like a 'cartoon' duck - you can see their Mallard ancestry usually from the pair of curled up feathers at the tail even though some of them are much larger than Mallards. |
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Sunday 8th January 2006, 19:10
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Thanks everyone. I had hoped it was something better than that. Alas!
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