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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2012, 06:42:53 PM »
Definitely looks slightly larger, with sharp pintail features,beak,flank and tail end
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2012, 07:50:15 PM »
Its definitely bigger than a common teal.

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2012, 11:18:32 PM »
Boy some people make themselves look stupid when they make a bold statement about the cross..................and are wrong :tup:

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2012, 12:00:43 AM »
Boy some people make themselves look stupid when they make a bold statement about the cross..................and are wrong :tup:
Maybe I'm missing something but that bird doesn't have the teal Bill, has wigeon violet base of the neck feathers and the inner wing feathers of a pintail. Not to mention the size is different from a teal. seems like a pretty obvious cross to me.  the eurasian teal looks about the same as a normal green winger. My thoughts at least. I apologize if I look stupid.

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2012, 12:01:28 AM »
Looks like teal/gadwall to me :dunno:

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2012, 12:05:22 AM »
 :tup:
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2012, 06:24:21 AM »
Boy some people make themselves look stupid when they make a bold statement about the cross..................and are wrong :tup:

Is that why you didn't state what kind of duck it was in case you were wrong and might look stupid? :chuckle: Geez some people :dunno:
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2012, 06:32:30 AM »
Boy some people make themselves look stupid when they make a bold statement about the cross..................and are wrong :tup:
and some people make themselves look stupid when they make ignorant comments like yours.... :tup:
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2012, 08:34:01 AM »
I really don't think it is a common teal. The bill is totally different. Along with the widgeon neck, which the common teal does not have, and the butt and wings are more like a pintail than the common teal. I am saying no on the common teal :dunno:
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2012, 10:41:50 AM »
I believe this is a hybrid.
But not a wigeon.
The bill and wing span and feathering on back and tail indicate a clear Pintail/Greenwing cross breed.

Never seen one of those.
Very cool find.
Let me guess? You called him in with a whistle? lol....

And I wonder if it counts as a pintail for the daily limit?  hmmm
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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2012, 11:10:47 AM »
The story...

On Saturday my son and I decided to go hunt for the afternoon because the forcast was calling for snow starting around 1pm. I have always loved duck hunting in the afternoon and have had some incredible hunts when a snow storm starts. We got set up on a little pond and within minutes the ducks started moving. We both had bagged several mallards each that were decoying like a dream. My son decides to put on more layers of clothes because the snow was really coming down. I look up and there is three ducks locked up...I swore they were wigeon...one pass and they were committed. I shot the furthest one and swung on the other two and got a huge snow flake in my eye...no second or third shot. I send the dog for the one I dropped and he comes back out of the cattails after a few minutes of searching with this duck...I thought, "A teal?! But I shot a wigeon." I send him back in figuring he had found a cripple from somone else, and after 10 minutes he comes out totally defeated, with that look that says, "You're an idiot, I already found him for you." Then I start looking at this duck closer and realize that this was in fact the duck I shot...then I look closer and start to notice the colors amd size. I told my son, "this is one weird looking teal."

The more I look at this duck and think about it, the more special it becomes. I have shot hundreds of ducks and never seriously considered getting a bird mounted before. That all changed on Saturday.

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2012, 11:22:16 AM »
That's cool, so it was widgeon-sized then?

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2012, 11:41:04 AM »
That's cool, so it was widgeon-sized then?

Yep

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2012, 01:14:19 PM »
thats a beautiful bird!

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Re: Hybrid
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2012, 01:16:46 PM »
thats a beautiful bird!

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