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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: Tealer on November 11, 2015, 06:49:56 PM

Title: Found a unique bird today
Post by: Tealer on November 11, 2015, 06:49:56 PM: This little fella came in today will a few of his half brothers.
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Post by: Back Country on November 11, 2015, 07:08:17 PM: Pintail mallards cross? That cool.
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Post by: Man Tracker on November 11, 2015, 07:18:43 PM: or maybe a little shoveller blood in there?
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Post by: fowl smacker on November 11, 2015, 09:11:24 PM: Yep, those pintail mallards are sweet. Seen a few of them, never shot one. You getting it mounted?
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Post by: lokidog on November 11, 2015, 10:02:24 PM: Are you hunting Downtown Anywhere Park again?? :chuckle: :chuckle:

Interesting bird.
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Post by: JJD on November 12, 2015, 05:24:06 AM: Fun to shoot a unique bird once in a while. :tup:
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Post by: boneaddict on November 12, 2015, 06:15:06 AM: cool bird
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Post by: pianoman9701 on November 12, 2015, 06:19:20 AM: Cool Bird. Way to go. You gonna release it now? "Fly and be free!" :chuckle:
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Post by: h2ofowlr on November 12, 2015, 07:49:53 AM: Found this one yesterday. Since I didn't have a positive ID on it I decided not to take him. A hybrid to some and a domestic of sorts to me!
Title: Re: Found a unique bird today
Post by: fowl smacker on November 12, 2015, 12:33:23 PM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on November 12, 2015, 07:49:53 AM
Found this one yesterday. Since I didn't have a positive ID on it I decided not to take him. A hybrid to some and a domestic of sorts to me!
That looks like a park duck.
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Post by: ducksdogsdownriggers on November 12, 2015, 01:40:42 PM: Cool looking bird. Likely a pintail-mallard.
http://www.ducks.org/conservation/waterfowl-biology/waterfowl-hybrids
Title: Re: Found a unique bird today
Post by: Tealer on November 12, 2015, 04:54:15 PM: It's a mallard pintail hybrid. I would have mounted it but it was hammered hard then chewed on.

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Post by: The Gobble-stopper on November 16, 2015, 10:42:09 PM: We get a lot of those down here! We call them Pinlards
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Post by: Tealer on December 15, 2015, 07:48:24 PM: Found another cool bird today.
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Saturday's hunt yielded yet another.
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Post by: metlhead on December 15, 2015, 08:17:55 PM: Nice, but to get em in your hands, did YOU NEEK up on them. Couldn't help it
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Post by: Skyhigh on December 16, 2015, 11:04:22 PM: If you shoot what you expect to be a hybrid and do not want it these folks may.
http://hybridduck.blogspot.com/p/shot-hybrid.html?m=1
Title: Re: Found a unique bird today
Post by: Tealer on December 17, 2015, 09:54:26 AM: If I hadn't turned that mallard pin cross in to poppers I would have donated it.

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Title: Re: Found a unique bird today
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on December 17, 2015, 11:24:09 AM: Those Eurasian wigeon sure are gorgeous. I've seen a few on the Columbia here in Wenatchee over the years