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porcupine
07-23-2008, 08:49 PM
This duck has been hanging around Beacon Hill Park in Victoria. I contacted the Rare Bird alert and they think that is probably an escapee and that there have been reports of it around Greater Victoria for a year. Since It used to be called the Bahama Duck, you don't get to see many around here. If it was hunting season, and it flew by my blind, I might have to call a taxidermist.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u260/tvaida/WhiteCheekedPIntail036.jpg
To sweet. He'll probably migrate out of the area before the season opens.
Shed Hunter
07-23-2008, 09:49 PM
nice looking duck
EvanG
07-23-2008, 10:08 PM
Nice duck, reminds me, last year i shot a mallard with a male head and a female body, it was pretty strange looking but i didnt have a camera and my buddy mixed em up when he did the cleaning, would have likied to have that bird mounted. That duck above does look like some of the ones I see in pictures of hunts down in s. america.
From:
http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlGallery/91/index.html
Bahama pintails are endemic to the Neotropical Realm. They are widely distributed and locally common in the Caribbean and mainly coastal regions of South America south to southern Chile and central Argentina. Bahama pintail are also found in the Galapagos Islands. (
longshot
07-24-2008, 09:31 PM
What a cool lookin' duck!
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