Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Is This the ODDU from Marbled Godwit Post?


June 10 Email:

On June 3, I possibly saw this "odd duck" mentioned in Ken Sapkowski's email (see post below) on the club's recent sightings page.  I thought perhaps it was a hybrid or a strange color morph.  At the very least, the lack of white cheeks was notable to me.  I was going to look into it further but haven't done so yet.  Ken, is this the duck you were referring to in the email Ric posted?

- Marc Miedema


1 comment:

Ric said...

In regard to the three comments in the previous post, thanks to Anonymous for asking the very important 4-letter-code question and to Mike Boston for answering it. In regard to Dave Holmberg's Sibley reference, the bird in Marc's photo seems to have more white on the head than Sibley's odd male drawing.