Fulmar
Well-known member
While organizing some old holiday slides (and looking if I couldn't find any birds to add to my tick-list!) I came across the enclosed one. It was made in a Lake Mead marina near Boulder City, Nevada, USA in the middle of September 1980. I assumed them to be more or less domestic-hybridized Mallards (by the way, the white and domestic-hybridized Mallards are officially called Soup Ducks (translated) in the Netherlands for reporting, and the hybrid Geese as Soup Geese).
However, on taking a closer look there are two with dark bills which variation I cannot find in my (limited) resources. Are these hybrids with another species?
To see them better I will add two blow-ups as well. I look forward to your comment on these.
(and the American Coot in the picture gave me a new lifer after 23 years!).
TIA,
Peter
However, on taking a closer look there are two with dark bills which variation I cannot find in my (limited) resources. Are these hybrids with another species?
To see them better I will add two blow-ups as well. I look forward to your comment on these.
(and the American Coot in the picture gave me a new lifer after 23 years!).
TIA,
Peter