Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: JimL on April 30, 2015, 09:18:02 PM

Title: Help to identify Duck ID
Post by: JimL on April 30, 2015, 09:18:02 PM

Please help to identify following 2 types shore birds
#1
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8766/16704597154_a3a05c44dd_c.jpg)
#2
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7757/17140810639_5cf949caa8_c.jpg)

Thanks

Jim

Title: Re: Help to identify Duck ID
Post by: Paul O'Toole on May 01, 2015, 06:31:12 AM

#1: Ring - Billed
#2: Bufflehead

Title: Re: Help to identify Duck ID
Post by: BetCrooks on May 01, 2015, 07:42:54 AM

I'm sure it's just a typo, but he means Ring Necked for #1. Apparently they have a brown colour at the neck which shows up great when a hunter is holding the limp body. We all use the ring on the bill to id them from a distance easily.

Title: Re: Help to identify Duck ID
Post by: Paul O'Toole on May 01, 2015, 06:26:03 PM

Yep, Ring necked  :oops: