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RE: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )

To: 'Philip Veerman' <>, 'David Rees' <>
Subject: RE: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:45:14 +0000

You’re too kind Philip.  I was thinking about other issues and simply had the wrong duck species in my head.

 

From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 10:58 AM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'; 'David Rees'
Cc:
Subject: RE: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )

 

Oh yes but to be suitably tolerant, the only little error was in doing a reply on the prior message subject, rather than create a new message. It is still a valid thing for the Freckled Duck. Sure, someone unfamiliar with both just might be confused........

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb
Sent: Monday, 30 January, 2017 10:25 AM
To: 'David Rees'
Cc:
Subject: RE: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )

 

You’re absolutely right David.  Wrong duck, wrong food, wrong altitude …

 

From: David Rees
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 10:18 AM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc: <>
Subject: Re: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )

 

Geoffrey, think you got the wrong bird!! Musk ducks most certainly eat yabbies, Freckled ducks as you say dabble.

 

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

An algaevore rather than  a yabbyvore.  Those who have seen this species upend-feeding at Kelly Swamp will have a pointer to its filer-feeding habits.  It  prefers shallow water and soft mud. HANZAB describes it a s a specialist filter feeder.  Our own Peter Fullagar’s observation is that the ‘bill is held just above bottom .. head scything from side to side’.  Moreover:    ‘rapid pumping movements of the tongue cause food particles to be sucked in near tip and stream of water expelled from sides of recurved bill’.

 

 

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