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Hello All I took this picture a few days back and I have been sitting on it wondering what it is.
I thought Pete might know as it could be a scaup. It doesn't have a quack but a whistley sound.
My husband said it could be a lady scaup but he wasn't that sure either. I thought scaups came in one colour for both sexes.
I just felt it may be of interest.
Sitereh
The eye is the wrong colour for a Scaup Sitereh, more likely to be a female wigeon, but as far as I know, only the male makes the whistling call.
It's a West Indian Whistling Duck
Excellent captures :)
http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/bi...ll_images.html
Well I am still stumped but I liked both suggestions of what this duck could be.
Sitereh
I think I may have found it. I have been looking for a few days now.
there is a video clip in Wikipedia under Grey Teal. http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Grey_Teal.ogg/mid-Grey_Teal.ogg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Teal&h=288&w=384&sz=6&hl=en&start=11&usg=__nd v0yiC_tUZ7gQ4d2NdhFNBPoLs=&tbnid=D4t8mkW3RppxPM:&t bnh=92&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dteal%2Bducks%2Bin%2Bnew%2Bzealand%26g bv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
Sitereh