Hiroshima, Mizutorinohama Park, various duck species, need Confirmations please (1 Viewer)

[MorphCore]

Hello there

today I´ve been to a wonderful birding spot in my area (Hiroshima) and wanted to get in some more opinions before I share my observations on Ebird. So here are the photos and my identifications.

photos 1-2: red breasted Merganser
photos 3-4: American Widgeon
photo 5: long billed Plover
photo 6-7: Gadwell
photo 8-9: Northern Shoveler
photo 10-12: ?, maybe Greater Scaup?
photo 13-14 : Black-headed Gull?

 

[foresttwitcher]

All your ID's look good to me but I have never seen Long-billed Plover so wait for more experienced opinions on that one.

 

[HouseCrow]

All look good, the Am Wigeon is a bit tricky as there are quite some hybrids around...but it looks good to me too.

cheers,
G

 

[MorphCore]

All your ID's look good to me but I have never seen Long-billed Plover so wait for more experienced opinions on that one.

Thank you I´ll wait for some more input

All look good, the Am Wigeon is a bit tricky as there are quite some hybrids around...but it looks good to me too.

cheers,
G

Ebird also was like: Are you sure? but this was my best attempt

 

[HouseCrow]

I found (was seen before, but i didn't know that at the time) one in a Tokyo park but it turned out to be a hybrid. T one was redder than your bird.
American × Eurasian Wigeon (Hybrid Mareca americana × penelope)

 

[MorphCore]

I found (was seen before, but i didn't know that at the time) one in a Tokyo park but it turned out to be a hybrid. T one was redder than your bird.
American × Eurasian Wigeon (Hybrid Mareca americana × penelope)

Thanks for making me aware of this. The more I look at it the more it looks like a hybrid

 

[HouseCrow]

hm, i forgot that the reddish colour is fine for AmWi. I don't see a real problem as your bird is a bit bleached out.
There are tons of more expert duckists here who will know

cheers,
G

 

[MorphCore]

I got a notification from Ebird, idetifying it as a hybrid between a Eurasian Wigeon and an American Wigeon. So now we know