ML471356231
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- Age
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- Sex
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Media notes
Poor quality handheld phonescoped video.
Observation details
Continuing bird. When I arrived around 11:20 Guy and others were just leaving after watching the bird. When we first saw it it was among the large snags in the water here: (32.6463755, -116.9299746). It seemed to be palling around with a male mallard and was heading west. Then the whole mallard flock was flushed off the gravel bar into the open water just south of the snags and also headed west. After about 20 minutes the flock swam back east towards open beach southeast of the large snags and began preening/roosting, which the Mexican Duck then joined. Overall the bird was the same size as the mallards nearby but was different in having a much darker mottled brown body, same colored tail and undertail coverts, contrasting paler head with a pattern like a female Mallard but with a greenish yellow bill. No white in the tail whatsoever. Some photos and video to be uploaded at a later time.
Technical information
- Camera
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 42 MB