Re: duck ID

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Andy,

There's a very similar looking quacker on a pond here in Elkton.  Has been for several years.  Somewhere in my piles of files someone sent me a note axplaining that color pattern.. As a I recall it was a Mallard x Somethingorother.

Cheers,

Gary Griffith (brdnsum@dpnet.net)
Elkton, MD

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> Chatters,
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>   I saw an unusual looking duck today in Greenbelt Lake, Prince George's
> County, MD. It was with a group of mallards and it was shaped like a
> mallard.  It was all black except for the front of its neck and top of its
> breast which were white.  The color pattern was very similar to that of a
> black scoter.  The bill was black and shaped like a mallard's and its legs
> were orange.
>
>   Was this just some weird mallard?  Or is it possible that it was a black
> scoter?
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>   Any help is appreciated.
>
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> Andy Rabin
> andyrab@wam.umd.edu
> Rockville, MD
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