Mottled Duck - Anas fulvigula
This is a long ranged shot but again its the range and a few identification markings from my Sibley that confirms the identification for me. Again there seems to be Mallards, Mexican Mallards (a sub-species), American Black Duck (a darker brown !) and these fellows all slightly overlapping in range and hybridising and so on. I know this is a mottled duck because when you look at the bill blown up on the photo below it is a brighter yellow - not drab like a female but a male bill but on this occasion without the Mallard male plumage of a shiny green head and so on. If you look at the bird above it has a black spot on the "gape" (the corner of the bill/edge of underside of neck. I love identification - it is a nice jigsaw puzzle that tells me that the Daily Bird clicked on a notch. You can click on the photo and then blow up ourself if on an iPad - black spot on the gape.
Mottled Duck, Anas fulvigula
Orlando Wetlands Park, Christmas, Florida
24 May 2015
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