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Whats this fella?

Geezer1000 · 2010-01-03 16:31:22

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:

03-01-2010 4:31pm

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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:

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#2 03-01-2010 4:49pm

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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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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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#4 03-01-2010 4:58pm

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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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#5 03-01-2010 6:44pm

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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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