Waterbirds, Thuringia (Germany) (1 Viewer)

[Henry_Flower]

Can anyone help with a couple of IDs?

First, are these juvenile moorhen? (No adults obviously around).




Then a couple of ducks that we can't ID, which were hanging around with the mallards. I'm not even sure whether these are the same species, but the little one seemed very attached to the larger one:



This is possibly the small one landing:



I'd be grateful for any suggestions!

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Moorhen, Mallard, Gadwall and your smaller duck looks like an eclipse Ringed teal.

 

[Nutcracker]

Ditto to juvenile Moorhens, Gadwall, Ringed Teal & Mallard. The Ringed Teal is a zoo escape, originally from South America.

 

[Henry_Flower]

Great, thanks to both of you.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

The ringed teal is an adult female.

A few weeks ago we had a group of 5 ringed teal in Braunschweig, 1 male and 4 females, all unringed. One female decided to stay (with eurasian teal) but the others have disappeared