From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jan 17 20:22:45 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0I4LM2n021653 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from la.znet.com (la.znet.com [207.167.96.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0I4KR1l021610 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.52.162.220] (66-52-162-220.oak.inetworld.net [66.52.162.220] (may be forged)) by la.znet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/le1-la) with ESMTP id i0I4KN2q003062 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:20:24 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-From: [[email protected]] X-Envelope-To: <[[email protected]]> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:21:39 -0800 To: [[email protected]] From: Dean Manley <[[email protected]]> Subject: [SBB] Duck oddity X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Hi All, Late this afternoon, 01/17/04, I found a mostly white duck feeding with Northern Shovelers out on Salt Pond A1 adjacent to Charleston Slough. This duck looked like a Northern Shoveler except for it's colors. Size and shape looked about right. The head/bill profile looked about the same (could have been a little shorter) and when it cocked it's head to scratch I could see the topside of the bill which looked broad similar to a shoveler. The duck was white overall with a few dark blotches on the back and the more foward scapulars. Some exposed primary areas were dark. The bill was completely orange as well as the feet. I did not pick up a color reflection from the eye as was noticable on the normal shovelers, it just seemed dark. The surface feeding behavior was identical to the Norther Shovelers in the small group he/she was sticking with. My first thought was an albanistic shoveler. Then I thought shoveler hybrid with a large domestic white duck's color genetics being dominant. But I know nothing of these matters. As I was departing the area I met Bob Hirt and told him about the duck. He checked it out and later we compared notes with observations being about the same. It looked and behaved like a shoveler. Bob favored the albanistic Northern Shoveler theory. Comments welcome. Dean Manley _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]