[EBB Sightings] Ring-necked Duck and Mergansers

	

Joseph Morlan wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:42:52 -0800, "Joyce Rybandt" 
>  wrote:
> 
>> Last Friday I saw both the Tufted Duck and a Ring-necked Duck at
>> Lake Merritt. The latter is likely the other dark backed duck seen
>> by Dominik Mosur.
> 
> Another possibility is that it may have been this:
> 
> http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=10&pos=11
> 
> 
> which was photographed at Lake Merritt on 11 January.  Click on image
> for full size.
> 

When I was at the lake a couple of days ago, I saw three dark-backed 
ducks. One was clearly a Tufted Duck (and not the one that was there 
earlier this year, unless they molt their tuft feathers at this time of 
year); one was equally clearly Ring-necked; and the third was ... odd. 
It looked mostly like a Ring-necked Duck, but the head wasn't as pointy, 
and the back had faint brindling. Another hybrid?

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