coolest duck ever shot?

[DUCKDUDE]

A banded green wing teal (Drake) that had a nose ring.  Green square on one side of the nostlie and red circle on the other side.

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Harlequin and eiders blue geese sand hill crane.

[h2ofowlr]

I think I found the coolest one!

[carver52]

I've been kinda lucky with hybrids, a redhead/canvasback,  mallard/greenwing, two mallard/widgeons.   First two were drakes, the m/w were hens.  But then two swans were hard to beat being so big.  What else is there to say about 7 foot wingspans?

[Wacenturion]

Green Winged Teal in coastal South Carolina......only because it was my first duck about 44 years ago and it was banded.  What are the odds on that....lol.

[h2ofowlr]

I've been kinda lucky with hybrids, a redhead/canvasback,  mallard/greenwing, two mallard/widgeons.   First two were drakes, the m/w were hens.  But then two swans were hard to beat being so big.  What else is there to say about 7 foot wingspans?

Darn park ducks cross breading.   

[D-Rock425]

mine would have to be a banded mallard i shot my first year duck hunting.

[seth30]

My avitar is a double-banded harlequin bull.

how does anyone top this cool duck

[Blacktail135]

 DUCKDUDE thats pretty da*n cool right there. Never heard of such a thing.

[BurleyDog]

Its still hard for me to believe but I once took a limit of wood ducks in Ky (2). Both were double banded with $100 reward bands each. 

Both were drakes.
I found out later that they had banded in the area just a couple weeks prior

I'll probably never top that one

[WCTaxidermy]

Duckdude, did the game department tell you what the nose rings were put there for?  I have never seen or heard of them before.  John

[h2ofowlr]

A banded green wing teal (Drake) that had a nose ring.  Green square on one side of the nostlie and red circle on the other side.

They will use the nose rings on captive birds.  Was the band an Avise style or a private bander?  May be similar to what they do with the pheasant, but they take them out prior to release.

[DUCKDUDE]

Yes they did it was for observation purposes like a neck band on a goose.  It was actually my first band when I was 14 the bird was 5 years old and from Alberta.  I have shot many more bands since then including a double leg banded Brant.

[WCTaxidermy]

Thats pretty cool duckdude.  Thanks for the information.  John

[carver52]

I know a biologist who goes up to the arctic every spring to band brant.  One year he got an invite to hunt brant with a well known brant slayer.  Their hunt was on the Baja penninsula.  This was the bio's first brant hunt and he was stoked.  So the first morning breaks daylight and a small flock swings in.  Fired one shot so he wouldn't hit more than one and when the bird boy brought it in, low and behold he'd banded that bird that spring on the breeding area above the arctic circle.   I thought it was pretty high odds against that happening but he told me that perhaps as many as 1 in 20 pacific black brant are banded every spring.