[EBB Sightings] It Was a Shelduck

I was very interested in the I.D. of this bird, as I came across the 
same "mystery" bird last month when we were in Lhasa, Tibet: along the 
banks of the  Bramaputra were what I swore looked like Ruddy Shelducks, 
except for the same, whitish, heads.  In my Birds of China book, only 
the males were pictured, so I wasn't sure they were what I thought they 
were; this solves the mystery! Thank you!
Lynne Ehlers

On Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at 05:26 PM, Hilary Powers wrote:

> A listmate sent the pix to Joseph Morlan, who identified the bird I 
> saw yesterday at Lake Merritt as a female Ruddy Shelduck. The 
> illustration in Sibley only shows the male; the female is very 
> similar, but with a more whitish head and without the black collar.
> It's a refugee from India or eastern Asia, probably by way of 
> someone's captive flock. But well worth seeing - the world is full of 
> hybrid mutt ducks that can look like nothing on earth, but one glimpse 
> of this is enough to be sure that it's a species of its own and not a 
> cross.
> I gather it's still there; someone mentioned seeing it today.
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