Name this duck (Page 4): You being on the Shore, a place for Woodducks and Shovelers is Pickering Creek Audubon Center, in Presquile. Also Delmarva Fox Squirrels. Nice, quiet place...

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Mar 9, 2020 14:05:42 #

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

jwm1944 wrote:

SCAUP!

You being on the Shore, a place for Woodducks and Shovelers is Pickering Creek Audubon Center, in Presquile.
Also Delmarva Fox Squirrels.
Nice, quiet place with a lot of shoreline.
Bill

Mar 9, 2020 14:55:46 #

whybird Loc: Canada

Leser Scaup

Mar 9, 2020 15:28:07 #

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

newtoyou wrote:

Yes, very much so. Thus the length of this thread. Look close at head shape, feather pattern can be confusing, but the skull is distinctive.
Bill

So it’s a Lesser Scaup?

Mar 9, 2020 16:29:38 #

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

phlash46 wrote:

So it’s a Lesser Scaup?

No, sir.
My first post IDed it as a Greater Scaup, and why.
Bill

Mar 9, 2020 16:37:18 #

Dick Byers

Greater scaup

Mar 9, 2020 17:46:12 #

awhit

It is a Greater Scaup, commonly called a Bluebill.

Mar 9, 2020 17:56:43 #

mitxpic

Definitely a greater scaup. Lived on a pond they visited during spring and fall migration and saw many ( as well as lesser scaups and others) up close and personal.

Mar 9, 2020 18:48:26 #

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

phlash46 wrote:

???

Mar 9, 2020 18:49:00 #

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

I give up.

Mar 9, 2020 19:25:08 #

Mubashm Loc: Gaithersburg, Maryland

CWGordon wrote:

Looks to be what is often called a Canvasback, here on the Chesapeake Bay. I am no expert, but would concede that the proper ID is most likely the larger of the Scaup ducks, as mentioned by other contributors.

The Canvasback looks like this.