North Devon Duck (1 Viewer)

[Jon Turner]

Photo taken by a friend of mine at Saltpill duck pond North Devon a couple of days ago, a friend of his also took a photo of what appears to be the same bird in West Cornwall a few days previously....

 

[Butty]

Intersex birds (and their confusion with hybrids)

intersex Mallard, Malmoe (Sweden), 27th December 2008 - copyright Carl Gunnar Gustavsson (photo ID: 1029) Introduction Intersex bi...

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¼ of the way down.

 

[Jon Turner]

That's a good representation, I'll pass it on to my amigo! Thanks.

 

[Steve Lister]

My first thought was a hybrid, Teal x ???, but I suppose an intersex Teal is possible.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

I agree with intersex teal. they look quuite confuseing when you see such a bird first time. The rather broad flank barring does also occur in some other intersexes, for example Northern pintail intersexes, but is more rare in mallard intersexes

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

saying intersex means here an intersex -plumaged bird- not nenessarily a true interex.

in general such interesex plumaged birds seem to be females with a hormonal problem (low on estrogenes)