Kevin McGowan loves to throw in the American Black Duck in his Cornell labs waterfowl ID course quizzes. I missed it every time. The patch of white should give the mallard away, but still, the bill color on this guy had me second guessing myself.
oh, man, it’s too late, Bob, I already claimed you as having an American Black Duck on all my other listservs, entered it in eBird for you, and submitted a rare bird report in your name to IBRC…… 😉
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these l-o-n-g pandemic days make me half crazy ? mostly crazy ? just stir crazy ? wishing we were still in camping mode ?
The head and neck shape looks like a Mallard, non breeding male has an olive green bill, Can see the white border on the wing and the white tail. Plus the American black duck would be way out of range.
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Non breeding Mallard … notice the white on the tail that you would not see on an American Black Duck … of course it would be well out of it’s normal range also.
On Jul 27, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Robert Kiernan <photobirder@…> wrote:
This out at dry lake yesterday didn’t look right any of are regular ducks sent in to merlin for ID. They said american black duck ????
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Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
