Very cool widgeon

My buddies son shot this here in MT. Pretty cool variation on the normal color, and no its not a eurasian. Click on it for a bigger pic.
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Mark
Clicking doesn't enlarge the pic. Can you please post a larger pic?
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killerbee
"mark jones" wrote:Clicking doesn't enlarge the pic. Can you please post a larger pic?
 +1, looks like a pretty bird, i'd like a better look.
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79Ford
Here ya go. I reposted it for ya.


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MuleyMadness
Cool photo, please expound on the color variation. I'm not that smart yet. :)
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There are two possiblities here. 1st it coud be the result of an american/eurasian hybrid x eurasian cross or american/eurasian hybrid x american widgeon. Either of these crosses would explain the coloration. Its not likly its a straight eurasian x american cross. The picture doesnt really show all the different colors in this bird. Its throat is green and the brown has green tints. 2nd it could be a color morph. Meaning some of its genes are mixed up and it is expressing brown instead of green. Personally, I think somewhere in its geneology an ancester was abused by a wayward eurasian widgeon. Apparently birds like this are seen occasioally on the west coast.
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