[EBB Sightings] It Was a Shelduck

[EBB Sightings] It Was a Shelduck

Hilary Powers
Wed Jun 06 17:26:43 PDT 2007
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    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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