Name that duck......

[landscaper]

I can't believe y'all don't know what a summer duck is. It is derived from a cross between summer this and summer that!

Oh well. Guess the joke's on me. I had no idea there was anything actually referred to as a summer duck. Learn something every day.

[novacaine]

I will go with confused duck! It don't know who it's momma or daddy is!

[Deagle]

I'm just gonna label them as woodpile ducks. They were on Trace State Park lake, here in Pontotoc, saturday. I figured they were pushed out of some park, by the ice, and just needed a place to hang out. If I can go back and catch them, will you band them Wingman?

[Denduke]

Surprised at Mudhog, New Iberia, La. We always called the summer ducks the mottleds that stay year round usually in lone pairs all along the coast. Often confused with black ducks.

Didipper, pooldo, dois gris... normal stuff down there. Thought you were genuine/registered coon ass. My bad...
Later DL

[MudHog]

born and raised here for 29 years and sorry to not meet your standards.

Oh and your "pooldo", it's actually pouldeau or poul'deau. But I understand, everybody makes mistakes at some point in their lives.







So what is the census of what kind of duck is the topic of discussion?

[Wingman]

I bet an RC and a bag of Tabasco peanuts it's a Muscovy.

[teul2]

I bet an RC and a bag of Tabasco peanuts it's a Muscovy.

I'll raise ya a moonpie.

[Wingman]

The summer duck is the wood duck according to Audubon's original artwork.

[landscaper]

I'm with you on it being a muscovy, but where is the fleshy stuff around the bill and eyes gives them the nickname "Tumor Head"? Is that something the develop with age?

[MudHog]

looks like Mallard x Muscovy would be accurate. Scroll about half way down the page: http://10000birds.com/hybrid-mallards.htm

Originally found from the Rio Grande River basin in Texas south to Mexico, Central and South America, analysis of the mtDNA sequences of the cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 genes (Johnson & Sorenson, 1999) of Muscovy Ducks indicate that they might be close to the genus Aix and perhaps should be placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.

Muscovies and Mallards are frequent bed-mates, and as can be seen from the images below the hybrids are quite variable whilst still being fairly distinctive. Superficially similar to some domestic Mallards, they appear to have long, thinnish bodies with long, pointed, almost uniform tail feathers; a long, triangular, hooked bill that is mostly dark with a terminal or sub-terminal pale saddle; orange-red eyes; short, stout legs; and a scattering of bronzy-green body feathers.

It’s interesting that the birds that are presumably male have a whitish neck-collar along the lines of a male Mallard and dark heads like a male Muscovy, whilst John Bishop’s bird from Kentucky notably echoes the head pattern of a female Mallard and is presumably therefore a hybrid female. (For more on this hybrid have a look at http://moineaudeparis.com/Oiseaux/Palmi ... index.html.)

(Many thanks to Joern Lehmhus - see the sketch of the Mallard x Wood Duck below - for originally pointing out some of the characteristic’s of this hybrid to me.)

[Bustin' Ducks]

Wingman,

When you say "Summer Duck" are you referring to a Wood Duck (Anas sponsa)? I've seen where a Wood Duck was also called a Summer Duck, but then I've seen people call a Greenhead a Summer Mallard.

Could that be a cross between a Drake Mallard and Hen Wood Duck or vice versa?

The Wood ducks is Aix sponsa not ANAS SPONSA

[4dawgma]

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his name is Bob.

[travlnhunter]

Whatever you do, DO NOT SHOOT THIS DUCK. There are laws about how close you can discharge firearms around nuclear power plants.