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Title: Help with Duck ID
Post by: gatrapper on May 01, 2011, 08:28:22 PM
My buddy called asking about some ducks he saw while fishing.  He gave me the description and I can not think of any native duck with these characteristics.

Brown Body, Black head with white VERTICAL line, dark beak, little white on wings, and a little white on its rump.

Also roughly the same size as a wood duck.

What do y'all think?

I told him that it sounds like a blue wing teal but he said that wasn't it. 
Title: Re: Help with Duck ID
Post by: Shellwaster on May 01, 2011, 08:43:06 PM
Common merganser?
Title: Re: Help with Duck ID
Post by: turkey slayer on May 01, 2011, 08:53:49 PM
could be some kind of mixed breed???
Title: Re: Help with Duck ID
Post by: gatrapper on May 01, 2011, 08:55:08 PM
Thats what I told him.  I said it either has to be a teal or some time of ornamental duck. 
Title: Re: Help with Duck ID
Post by: JDogg on May 02, 2011, 12:14:27 AM
definitely sounds like a teal and we've been seeing bunches of them while out chasing the gobblers lately.