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- From: jfinger@adobe.com (Jeff Finger)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Duck ID Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.010953.4878@adobe.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:09:53 GMT
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- Any theories about the id of the following would be greatly appreciated:
- o Seen about 3:30pm today on one of the Baylands Park ponds along
- the Highway 101 feeder road just North (actually West) of San Antonio Road.
- o A duck, swimming all alone in spite of a large flock of ducks nearby.
- o Slightly smaller than a Ruddy Duck (it was occasionally near a couple of
- Ruddies)
- o Spent vast majority of the time under water, diving with a small leap.
- o Rich brown head, a good deal longer from front to back than from top
- to bottom.
- o Bill/Head shape somewhat like that of a scoter, i.e., thick bill enters
- forehead at small angle, head long from front to back.
- o Bright colored eye
- o Dark bill with yellow tip
- o White neck and underside
- o Gray mottled body
- o Some white patched apparent even on closed wing (like on female
- Goldeneye).
-
- Female Goldeneye would make sense except that what I saw was much
- smaller and the head and bill were shaped wrong. Also, do Goldeneyes
- dive a huge amount? Any thoughts?
-
- Thanks,
-
- -- Jeff Finger --
-
- P.S. The reason I was out there was to see the Redheads that I had been
- told about. There were about 10 males there.
-