[Maine-birds] Re: Odd duck in South Portland

Hey Bill, I was looking at this puzzling bird and researched a bit. I will of course throw out the "I am no expert" comment to ensure you take everything I say with a heaping tablespoon of salt! With the Heron/Egret hybrid I found the other day, I have been delving into hybrids a bit more and find it an interesting topic. Call me crazy. :-)

There is a plumage of mallard that is called "Apricot" that looks a bit like this. I had never heard of this and could only find a couple of pictures. One of the better ones actually came from the Wikipedia article on Mallards. Not sure i think this is it, but it is close. 

Amelanism is not quite the same as albinism and may be the cause of that color, it can look like this which I believe is a regular Mallard with this condition, not a hybrid. 

That being said though there is also a term I have seen thrown around called a "Manky Mallard" which seems to be used to note any mallard that is not normal, if you google it you will find many variations.

Cheers!

Rob 

On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 8:36:14 PM UTC-4, Bill Blauvelt wrote:

This looks like an Odd young duck to me. Maybe it is a young Mallard, but not like one I have seen. Does anyone know what it is?

I put 3 pics on my Flicker page.

https://flic.kr/p/JGgU8A

Thanks,

Bill

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