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Monday, November 25. 2013

Identify this duck

Final photo of our series of our pal's photos in northern Manitoba


Posted by Bird Dog at 04:20 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Just a guess - wood duck?
#1 Tom Francis on 2013-11-25 05:47 (Reply)
Hen mallard
#2 Ron Hamel on 2013-11-25 06:26 (Reply)
A hen green wing teal? A cold duck, whatever the species.
#3 MTF on 2013-11-25 06:51 (Reply)
Mallard hen.
#4 mostly cajun (Link) on 2013-11-25 08:43 (Reply)
George?
#5 J on 2013-11-25 09:12 (Reply)
Ethel....
#5.1 Tom Francis on 2013-11-25 11:34 (Reply)
Cold.
#6 DavidB on 2013-11-25 09:56 (Reply)
Something disturbing about our local mallards. They all appear to be mixed with domestic duck. I wonder what that'll do to population in the long run? Just a few years ago I could see a few oddballs and the rest looked like pure mallard. Now they all look like mostly mallards, but not quite like they used to. A little bigger, colors off etc.
#7 forest on 2013-11-25 10:18 (Reply)
Answer: Hen Mallard.
#8 Bird Dog on 2013-11-25 12:40 (Reply)
I think you're wrong, BD. I'm sure that is a Melanesian Hermaphroduck. They get caught in the jet stream and occasionally turn up in Manitoba.
#9 Mystery Meat on 2013-11-25 12:54 (Reply)
It was once caught in an oil spill and for a while it was a Geoduck. (Yeah, I know it's a stretch but how often can you make a "gooey duck" joke about an actual duck?)
#10 BlogDog on 2013-11-25 15:22 (Reply)
I've never seen that duck before in my life. You've got the wrong guy.
#11 JKB on 2013-11-25 15:56 (Reply)
wait a minute. I think it is a geoduck!
#12 Militant Milk Mustache (Link) on 2013-12-14 14:25 (Reply)

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