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After birding the shoreline I walked up to the interpretive center and scanned the fossil beds along the concrete wall where I came across a group of mallards with one smaller orange duck sitting in the midst of them which I recognized immediately to be a FUWD as I had seen several earlier this year in south Texas. I lost track of the bird while sending out the alert but fortunately Steve Brown, Jamie Baker, and MOB relocated it further away across the river as I went on a fool's errand to try and refind it on the fossil beds. While the distant and heavily cropped photos/digiscopes are poor, they prove diagnostic as no other ducks possess similar qualities. The bird is rusty orange across most of the head, neck, breast, and belly. It has a dark stripe going from the crown and down the nape. The black wings give the bird a dark back, most obvious in the tertials while it's resting. Other diagnostic ID points include white flank streaking, white undertail coverts, and blue-gray coloration in the bill and feet. The duck looked quite comfortable associating with the Mallards on the far shoreline and so I think it would be worth checking this spot again in the late evening/morning when they may return to roost on the fossil beds.
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