Fwd: Long-tailed Duck in McKinley Marina

Lake Park Birders,

Looks like Todd Wilson added two new species to his BiGBY, Big Green Birding Year.

http://www.sparroworks.ca/bigby.html

I believe the Long-tailed Duck and Hybrid Hooded Merganser X Common Golden-eye

put Todd over 160 species for his year of totally foot and bike-powered birding.

Just 18 more days till he can get in his car again to do birding ;-)

--- Paul Hunter,   

 http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html

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On Dec 13, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Todd Wilson wrote:

Just got back from a long hike to the lake and back. I had great views of a female Long-tailed Duck in close at the Marina. 

Also present was a Hooded Merg X Common Goldeneye hybrid.  I didn't get a pic but the bird looked pretty much exactly like this:

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?stat=BROWSE&query_src=photos_fauna_com-Bird&where-lifeform=Bird&where-namesoup=Hooded+Merganser+X+Goldeneye+Hybrid&rel-namesoup=matchphrase&title_tag=Hooded+Merganser+X+Goldeneye+Hybrid

I googled it and it turns out to be a pretty common hybrid.

 

-T

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From WikiPedia

Bigby is an acronym for birders doing a Big Green Big Year in which they attempt to build a long list of bird species without once contributing to green-house gas emissions ... ie: no cars or planes, simply walking, cycling, skiing etc to get around