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Whats this fella?

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  • 03-01-2010 5:31pm
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    Geezer1000
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭


    I think its a shoveller duck. He (or she?) was the only one in a pond full of mallard. He was only half the size of the mallard:

    Shovellerduck.jpg
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    jmkennedyie
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    Yep has beak of shoveler...but from colouring this smells to me like another hybrid (see adjacent thread) rather than normal wild shoveler.


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    Geezer1000
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭Geezer1000


    jmkennedyie wrote: »
    Yep has beak of shoveler...but from colouring this smells to me like another hybrid (see adjacent thread) rather than normal wild shoveler.

    Whats the adjacent thread (link) ?


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    jmkennedyie
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭jmkennedyie


    Yep here ya go: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055769156.

    Scroll to end of thread - someone posted a pic of a dodgy looking goldfinch that turns out is actually a hybrid...


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    A shoveller is a big duck, same size as mallard. That one in the pic is bizarre. I've never heard of shoveller hybridizing before, its usually smaller diving ducks such as tufties, pochard, scaup etc. Or maybe you have discovered a new species - the pygmy shoveller?:D


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