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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: GOcougsHunter on August 19, 2009, 07:42:27 PM

Title: mystery bird
Post by: GOcougsHunter on August 19, 2009, 07:42:27 PM: Forgive my lack of knowledge, but does anyone know what kind of bird this is? I've looked thourgh DU's identification lists and I don't see this on any of the lists. Would love to know what these were.
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Post by: BC CHASER on August 19, 2009, 07:45:35 PM: Look like ruddy ducks.
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Post by: rasbo on August 19, 2009, 07:48:31 PM: look like young buffles ,Dont ruddys have a blue beak
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Post by: GOcougsHunter on August 19, 2009, 07:49:04 PM: The ruddy male has a blue bill and the femles don't have the white patch on the cheek
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Post by: BC CHASER on August 19, 2009, 07:49:16 PM: your right Ras.
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Post by: Ray on August 19, 2009, 07:50:24 PM: Female or young bufflehead?
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Post by: Ray on August 19, 2009, 07:51:46 PM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bucephala-albeola-010.jpg
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Post by: BC CHASER on August 19, 2009, 07:54:23 PM: http://www.pbase.com/rosemarygallinger/image/82207257
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Post by: GOcougsHunter on August 19, 2009, 07:54:38 PM: Thanks guys... probably a bufflehead, they just seemed to be too big to be a bufflehead and the eclipse plummage threw me off. Was hoping it was some new species and I would make a ton of money off the pictures... :)
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Post by: washingtonmuley on August 19, 2009, 09:09:01 PM: Harlequin
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Post by: Birdguy on August 19, 2009, 09:14:55 PM: :yeah:
I believe washingtonmuley has it right. Summer plumage harlequin. Not much of a duck guy more pheasant but I am pretty sure. Where was the picture taken?
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Post by: WABONEHNTR on August 19, 2009, 09:17:31 PM: Female hari.
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Post by: teal101 on August 20, 2009, 08:49:55 AM: Yep female harlequin duck :hello:
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Post by: GOcougsHunter on August 20, 2009, 06:06:54 PM: WashingtonMuley. Thanks... The picture was taken up the Queets. They appeared to be about the size of a small Brant. Further looking on other sites confirms it.. Thanks! This was was my first (obviously) run in with a wild Harlequin herd. Too bad it was in ONP.
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Post by: Gun N Run on August 21, 2009, 05:25:00 PM: the size of a brant? They are quite a bit smaller than brant.

I've seen them in the spring on whites pass. Fun to watch in the whitewater.
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Post by: GOcougsHunter on August 21, 2009, 08:02:44 PM: please reference my phrase "small Brant" meaning around Mallard size but because they resemble a brant, I thought the correlation was apropos.
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Post by: Tom Reichner on August 26, 2009, 07:33:44 PM: Yep, it's a summertime Harlequin hen. This one in the attached image was photographed about 8 weeks ago.