I went past this morning and took better photos and they appear to be a
domestic duck called a blue Swedish.
Also some yellow rumpled thorn bills building a nest in the Casuarina next to
the platform.
Cheers
Lucy
Sent from my iPhone
Lucy Randall
> On 21 Jul 2014, at 8:57, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
>
> Almost certainly ex-captive mallard-based hybrids Lucy. There are quite a
> few of these on eg Yerrabi Pond and West Belconnen Pond. Someone has
> released them there g
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Randall
> Sent: Monday, 21 July 2014 8:10 AM
> To: John Layton; COGS
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] On Dickson wetland Sunday
>
>
> I'll go past this morning with a camera and try and get better photo!
>
> They are considerably larger than the resident wood and black ducks. I don't
> think they are and assume that they are escapees.
>
> Lucy
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Lucy Randall
>
>
>> On 21 Jul 2014, at 7:49, John Layton <> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know what these two ducks are? I apologies for the quality
>> of the photo - I only had my iPhone!
>> They have glossy dark purple heads and white under the chin.
>> Cheers
>> Lucy
>>
>>
>> Going by the photo I think they are Blue-bill Ducks.
>>
>>
>> John Layton
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