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need hep with ID
« on: April 23, 2011, 06:11:49 PM »
Can someone tell me what kind of duck this is PLEASE

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2011, 06:13:52 PM »
 Northern Shoveler
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2011, 06:21:11 PM »
Thank you.   I wondered if it was a shoveler just because of his bill and how he fed.   How about the kids flying behind him.  I thought Ringneck, but then again I don't see a ring.LOL

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 06:29:44 PM »
Those are Ring-Necked.

Most of the time, unless you are right on top of them or holding them in your hand, it is hard to see the ring.
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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 06:30:28 PM »
THANK YOU!

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 06:33:34 PM »
Doug, are those recent? I see a bunch every year by my place, but they have been gone for about a month now. Just curious.

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 07:11:31 PM »
Yesterday.  I saw a Ruddy in mid color phase too. 

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2011, 09:19:13 PM »
Thank you.   I wondered if it was a shoveler just because of his bill and how he fed.   How about the kids flying behind him.  I thought Ringneck, but then again I don't see a ring.LOL

Those divers are not ringnecks they are scaup aka bluebill.

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 10:26:04 PM »
Nice pics

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2011, 10:34:24 PM »
]Those divers are not ringnecks they are scaup aka bluebill.


That was too Easy,     Now are they Lesser or Greater Scaup?    :dunno:



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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2011, 10:38:40 PM »


Nice pictures by the way.  I've taken a couple hen shovlers but a drake is definetly on my top 5 "need to bag one list"

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2011, 11:01:25 PM »
Those divers are not ringnecks they are scaup aka bluebill.

Noticed that, too - white patch on the front of the face on the hen and the bright blue bill with no white "outlines" on the drakes give it away. Managed to get a few last season year and they sure are a pretty bird.

I'm curious if they are greater or lesser too, though. Any tips from experience telling them apart?
Everyone shoots three times per bird, right?

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2011, 11:12:34 PM »
I'm curious if they are greater or lesser too, though. Any tips from experience telling them apart?


It's pretty tough for me to tell them apart, size is the main difference, I believe the greaters tend to have a more greenish head while the lessers tend to have more of a purpleish tint to the head feathers but it's not consistant so size is the only determining factor.   :dunno:

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2011, 09:11:43 AM »
I would guess that they are lessers. Hard to say unless I was holding one though.

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Re: need hep with ID
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2011, 09:44:27 AM »
they are lessers. they about the same size as a shoveler. very pretty birds they both are. and great pics bone!! might have to get a print of that one from you

 


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