Duck, Lake Geneva, November 2007 (1 Viewer)

[Momo]

Well, I assumed a tufted duck x greater scaup (cf. the picture on page 59 in Collins), but thought it looked similar to the lesser scaup I saw in the US last September, not to mention the recent photos from France on surfbirds. I wasn't able to photograph the wing pattern at first and only managed yesterday because someone finally decided to drive a motor boat straight through the little flock of tufted ducks it hangs around with. I have nothing else to add to the specific ID features that have already been discussed.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php

More photos of the bird, from 2005 and 2007, details on the bill show this is the same returning bird....

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

2005:

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2606&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2605&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2604&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2603&current_page=1

2007

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2602&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2601&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2600&current_page=1

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2608&current_page=1


Comparison heads 05-07

http://www.chclub300.ch/gallery/Suchen/index.php?show_img=2607&current_page=1

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

Here is one looking quite similar:

http://www.rothervalleybirding.co.uk/Scaup.htm

 

[keith richter]

Greater Scaup.:t:

 

[Momo]

And another one taken on 4/12/2007 in la Baie du Temple, Morges, which is a few miles from where the hybrid was/is.

 

[rob stoff]

And another one taken on 4/12/2007 in la Baie du Temple, Morges, which is a few miles from where the hybrid was/is.

what hybrid, it looks like a perfectly normal Scaup?

Rob