Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: ravynne40 on May 18, 2010, 02:40:39 PM

Title: Marie Curtis Park, May 17
Post by: ravynne40 on May 18, 2010, 02:40:39 PM

not sure if this is a pintail or not as I have never seen one before, he/she was swimming around with a couple of male mallards on the Etobicoke Creek at Marie Curtis Park
please  help for ID thanks!

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/4619513798_9fca949386_o.jpg)

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Post by: Matthew Strimas-Mackey on May 18, 2010, 02:48:29 PM

You have a male Blue-winged Teal: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue-winged_Teal/id

I believe the white crescent on the face is the giveaway.

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Post by: ravynne40 on May 18, 2010, 04:39:17 PM

Thank you Matthew! I've never been up close well..as close as my camera lets me. The mallard was protecting the teal from  a couple of swans which was very strange behavior I thought.