A little help with ID please :) seen at New Lanark 2021 (1 Viewer)

[MichaelC99]

Hi just looking through old photos to sort them onto a new hard drive and come across this bird which im struggling to get an id for, any help is appreciated.
Photo was taken at New Lanark in August 2021, attached 2 base pictures and a slightly edited one incase it helps.

 

[Mike Earp]

Hi just looking through old photos to sort them onto a new hard drive and come across this bird which im struggling to get an id for, any help is appreciated.
Photo was taken at New Lanark in August 2021, attached 2 base pictures and a slightly edited one incase it helps.

Immature Moorhen

 

[MichaelC99]

Immature Moorhen

thank you much appreciated. I was thinking it was a duck of some sort that was maybe an escapee since the bill was so large, I need to remember to check immature/juveniles lol

 

[Butty]

I was thinking it was a duck of some sort that was maybe an escapee since the bill was so large

Bill-shape doesn't match any duck in the world that I can think of offhand. When you're figuring out (almost) any unknown bird, always look first at bill-shape.

 

[rkj]

Where the heck is New Lanark?

 

[MJB]

Where the heck is New Lanark?

About 1 km from Lanark, but on the Clyde...
MJB

 

[01101001]

Turns out, it's a UNESCO World Heritage site--one of 6 in Scotland (!)

 

[Andy Adcock]

Bill-shape doesn't match any duck in the world that I can think of offhand. When you're figuring out (almost) any unknown bird, always look first at bill-shape.

When I showed someone, a non birder, an image of the Masked Finfoot, they said that it looked like a duck. Probably based more on body rather than bill shape?