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Original posted by ((華仔)) at 6/03/2016 00:45 
27/02/2016
Can someone help to Identify this small cute duck?
It look like a pintail but it's wing pattern look some different than usual,
Is it also a hybird?
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I think this is a female Pintail, as you suggest. The wing does look different, but I think that's because it is being held in a strange way, outside the contour body feathers that would normally partly hide the wing. The actual pattern of the wing (dark brown coverts, narrow speculum) seems OK for a female Pintail. I wonder whether it has an injury that is making it hold the wing unusually like this.
The hybrid Wigeon in the earlier post is probably a bird I also saw in mid-February (on the same day as the American). Compared to the American, notice that the head pattern has some rufous at the rear, little green in the eye-stripe and some cream on the crown stripe, and that the flanks are mostly grey.
