Thanks for the thought. My first thought too at a distance as there are Musk Ducks at Yerrabi. But up close lacks the distinctive broad bill and totally black like the coots it was with, no mottling or whatever.
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Sorry, I’d meant to put “Female musk duck?”
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Musk duck?
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Subject: [canberrabirds] very black duck
There is a very black duck in Yerrabi pond. Very black, no obvious mottling, slight teal sheen on neck and hint of teal under wing feathers. I thought maybe
the American Black Duck, Anas rubripes, but the ones I have seen before were less black, like a darker version of our Pacific Black Duck. This one was swimming and taking bread with the hundreds of coots, only distinguishable from them at a distance
by its larger duck size (and black bill). I am sure someone more knowledgable than me will tell me it is obviously duck X or Y, so please do!
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