Unidentified duck. (2 Viewers)

[Rudegar]

Hi!,
Is this guy a hybrid of sorts?

Thanks.

 

[Butty]

Could you give location and date, please? - as these may be useful to some people in helping you with an ID. Thanks.
I take it to be a domestic duck. Not a hybrid.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,

yes in the end it will be a domestic duck, but:

(biased by the Common Shelduck in the picture?) I wondered, if this could be a Mallard x Common Shelduck hybrid (or one with another Tardona species)?

• is the neck slightly more slender than normal?
• is the bill slightly more drwan out than normal?
• its rare for domestic ducks/manky Mallards to have flesh coloured legs (and then a sign of Muscovy Duck ancestry?) like this bird seems to have
• yes flanks are paler grey than normal and brown area between the breast and the flanks might well indicate this hybrid combination, but dmoestic ducks are so variable and this is surely within variation (yes what a sentence when considering domestic ducks I know)

I searched for this hybrid combination online but didnt found a picture. And yes, it might well be aDomestic Duck. But I hope for Jörn and others to habe a look so I can sleep well (... you know)

 

[stevethehydra]

Plumage and structure look quite similar, though bill colour different, to this Mallard x Shelduck hybrid recently photographed in Norfolk:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1754242671701356878

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

Hi all,, yes, I think this is a hybrid Mallard x Common shelduck ...quite a rare hybrid

Here is another one:

https://flic.kr/p/Pvca5z

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hey, wow!
Thanks Steve and Jörn and all for ID
Now I can sleep well!

 

[Rudegar]

Thanks for the info. Sorry I missed the location out it was WWT in Llanelli, South wales.