[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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