[TN-Bird] Duck Problems

Dec. 28. 2005
 
During the last few weeks, I've run across a couple of mixed up ducks. Not  
mixed with different species but mixed between male and female. At the  
Lauderdale Waterfowl Refuge in TN, I located a Pintail with the full body  of a 
female and the neck and head of a male. Yesterday, at TVA Lake in Memphis,  I 
found 
a Hooded Merganser with the body of a male and the head of a  female. These 
did not appear to be transitional plumage's but as if you had  unscrewed the 
head of one and put it on the other. Hormonal, chemical or  just done to screw 
with our minds??? Any others seeing this around or am I  spending too much time 
looking at ducks?
 
The other problem is with bill tagged scaup. I'm finding a few in the  large 
mixed flocks here. I can't get any feed back on where they are being  tagged 
but that is not the problem. In the last two weeks, I've had two  different 
birds with trash stuck on the bill tags. Both birds were seen over a  period of 
days and were constantly trying to remove or shake off the  material. Is anyone 
else seeing this happening among other bill tagged ducks??  Probably no big 
deal but it appears to be for some of the ducks around  here.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135



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