Hybrid duck, possibly A.clypeata x A. cyanoptera, Central Spain (1 Viewer)

[fdokykcu]

This bird has turned up recently at Pedro Muñoz lagoon (Central Spain). It did so at least last winter year also.

Is associated with "normal" shovelers, flies without problem and is not marked.

Going by the book it seems a shoveler x cinnamon teal hybrid, at least characters depicted in Reebers's Wildfowl fit well. But that book says is rather rare in N. America compared with other shoveler x teal hybrids, so the probabilities of one of the to appear in Europe seem faint

Can you think on another options on its ID? And its origin: maybe an escape from European collections?

Thanks!

 

[FaroeRagnar]

http://10000birds.com/hybrid-teals.htm

Seems fitting with the last bird in the link

 

[MTem]

Other possibility is Australasian Shoveler x Northern Shoveler

http://www.animalphotos.me/bird3/bird3-shovx.htm

Mick

 

[SJC]

the sides are red so better for Cinnamon Teal x Northern Shoveler

 

[fdokykcu]

Thanks to everyone! The web on teal hybrids is very interesting

 

[rkj]

Perhaps it is not so odd that such a bird should show up in Spain. A lost Cinnamon Teal, or one escaped from a collection, finding itself in Europe in the breeding season would be unlikely to find another Cinnamon Teal to mate with and might end up breeding with a Northern Shoveler - that being its closest available relative. Such a pairing could produce your bird.

 

[Nutcracker]

Perhaps it is not so odd that such a bird should show up in Spain. A lost Cinnamon Teal, or one escaped from a collection, finding itself in Europe in the breeding season would be unlikely to find another Cinnamon Teal to mate with and might end up breeding with a Northern Shoveler - that being its closest available relative. Such a pairing could produce your bird.

Yep, agree - there's quite a few records of escaped Cinnamons in Europe.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

Agree on cinnamon x shoveler

I have been sent some photos of that hybrid, and found some others from Spain and other european countries in the last years.
In Europe shoveler x cinnamon seems to be the commonest hybrid involving cinnamon teal; not so in North America where Bluewinged is closer in appearance and bluewinged x cinnamon is much commoner ...

 

[Nutcracker]

In Europe shoveler x cinnamon seems to be the commonest hybrid involving cinnamon teal; not so in North America where Bluewinged is closer in appearance and bluewinged x cinnamon is much commoner ...

The chances of an escaped Cinnamon meeting a vagrant Blue-winged in Europe must be very low!!