White curls on greenhead

ChadL03 · Postby **ChadL03** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:42 pm

Has anybody ever seen or killed a greenhead with white curls on his tail. We killed one this weekend and I was wondering if it was rare...here are some pictures.

bulldog ducker · Postby **bulldog ducker** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:46 pm

never seen one but that sure looks cool!

Tedl10 · Postby **Tedl10** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:26 pm

Half house duck :shock:

Anatidae · Postby **Anatidae** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:46 pm

I've got a whole bag full of curls I've collected over the past 12 years, and I seem top remember some with a little white on'em......but not as much as the one in the photo.........and by the way......that is one BIG-A$$ fathead! :shock:

You coulda entered that thing in the MSDucks Big Honker contest! :wink:

Jeff · Postby **Jeff** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:46 pm

Looks to be a huge duck? Seems like he is twice the size of the other mallet in the picture?

Anatidae · Postby **Anatidae** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:16 pm

I bet it's a Mallard - White Farm Duck hybrid........like overweight farm duck with a cholesterol imbalance! I bet his HDL would top 300! :shock:

ChadL03 · Postby **ChadL03** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:23 pm

He is bigger than the one in the picture, but not that much bigger. It must be the angle of the picture or something. We killed three his size and five the size of the other one.

ducman77 · Postby **ducman77** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:11 pm

That is cool he would go on the wall as a dead mount

Blackwater · Postby **Blackwater** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:40 am

We've got a lot of 'ruins' /white duck mallard crosses on a fishing lake and their tails curl up like that. Actually that was how i was taught to distinguish male white ducks from female white ducks when i was little was by the curl on the tail. But never seen these ruins fly over about thirty or so feet and no more than about 5 to 10 feet off the water.

champcaller · Postby **champcaller** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:36 pm

i shot one a few years back with partially white curls

Blackduck · Postby **Blackduck** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:44 pm

I've shot one as well. I don't know it is white as in old or white as in pigment abnormality.

pntailhntr · Postby **pntailhntr** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:46 am

Really old Duck. With just white on it's curly feathers I woulnd't jump to saying it's a hybrid. If it were a hybrid, it would have more than just a white curly feather. Now, it wouldn't shock me to have a little white duck in its background maybe 3 or 4 generations back.

Boy I tell ya what, People on this site are QUICK as hell to try and say they have a hybrid duck!!

DUCKAHOLIC · Postby **DUCKAHOLIC** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:46 pm

That is just a turkey duck incognito

torch · Postby **torch** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:53 pm

Thats an old grey tailed mallard

iron grip · Postby **iron grip** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:19 pm

Morph-a-dit

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