Tufted ducks and geese identities
(Young punkster; for mr budak) Usually most Tufteds have a long dense 'dropping crest', but this one... well at least he's not bald, he's got four tufts. Quite the comical look. It was only after looking through my fieldguide that I realised I had seen another two more species of geese at Hyde Park today. They all look so alike! "In theory, separating the five species of 'grey' Anser geese... present little problem, practice is different". Indeed. Especially if they are in mixed flocks. Or, worse still, like some common species of ducks, they are hybrids. Aside from the grey geese I'm certain I've spotted a Snow Goose (very likely an escapee) among a flock of Greylags, and also a pair of Barnacle Goose - their main migratory movements take place about now. There's still a species of gull I've yet to ID.
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hybrid ducks!! :O I thought this was a teal!
So many strange burds!! I could have sworn I saw a flock of parakeets pass by me in Cologne!!!
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