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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: ducksdogsdownriggers on January 22, 2019, 09:28:00 AM

Title: Odd looking Drake mallard
Post by: ducksdogsdownriggers on January 22, 2019, 09:28:00 AM: Picked up this "guy" over the weekend. Feel like I've read something about this before, but can't find any info. Any thoughts?
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Post by: Goldeneye on January 22, 2019, 10:03:20 AM: Eclipse plumage.
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Post by: bornhunter on January 22, 2019, 10:30:42 AM: Cross dresser
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Post by: daddysprad on January 22, 2019, 10:50:50 AM: Mom was a pintail. :)
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Post by: plugger on January 23, 2019, 03:14:43 PM: killed a few like that over the years, we call the hen drakes, but I like the cross dresser comment. Might have to use that.
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Post by: bucksnort on January 23, 2019, 03:18:20 PM: don't ask don't tell
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Post by: crazywednesday on January 23, 2019, 04:19:01 PM: Transgender

Its in transition. Next will be sexual reassignment surgery.
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Post by: Blacktail135 on January 23, 2019, 07:13:48 PM: Don't "mount" it!!!!!! :chuckle:
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Post by: AWS on January 24, 2019, 08:52:09 AM: It's kind of a "Left Coast" thing.
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on January 24, 2019, 09:27:59 AM: Used to call them hermaphrodites, I guess intersex is the preferred lingo now. Unusual to see a full green head on one, usually just the top and back of the head. When I was growing up in New England mallard x black duck hybrids were pretty common, I don't expect that is what that is on this coast though.
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Post by: jagermiester on January 24, 2019, 10:01:29 AM: That is cool. Could you tell if it had meat and potatoes??
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Post by: outdooraddict on January 24, 2019, 10:04:33 AM: so do you count that in the drake limit or the hen limit, or finish the limit and then decide where you need to count it lol
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Post by: singleshot12 on January 24, 2019, 12:16:15 PM: Quote from: ducksdogsdownriggers on January 22, 2019, 09:28:00 AM
Picked up this "guy"

Did you just assume it's gender? :yike:

I've been seeing more of these types of ducks out there. There could be some truth to the fact that maybe "the water is turning the frogs gay"
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Post by: npaull on January 24, 2019, 01:40:40 PM: I wonder if it's a genetic chimera:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Notice how there's that patch on the left breast that has male-type plumage, and then a sharp border into female-type plumage. Makes me think it may be composed of totally different cell lines. It's a pretty cool phenomenon, read the wiki article.
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Post by: curtdiesel on January 30, 2019, 04:54:37 PM: That is a lot more interesting looking than all of the Eclipse drakes I see people posting pictures of :chuckle:
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Post by: Parasite on February 26, 2019, 08:31:58 AM: California millennial duck.
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Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on May 26, 2019, 06:23:50 PM: Ugly Duckling? :dunno:
Doug
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Post by: kodiak 907 on May 28, 2019, 08:32:23 PM: Bruce Jenner
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Post by: dilleytech on June 15, 2019, 11:08:45 AM: Isn’t this an example of a very old hen, or is it drake mallard where they are so old there hormones change as does there feathers?