Aythya Hybrid: Canvasback X Pochard

A drake aythya duck hybrid, between Canvasback and Pochard that I found at Lackford Lakes SWT, West Suffolk. It closely resembles a drake Canvasback but there is a small blue subterminal line on the bill, indicative of a hybrid origin. It is fully winged. Any comments on the identification are welcome.

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Pets & Animals

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• Aythya
• Hybrid
• Canvasback
• Pochard
• Lackford
• Lakes
• Suffolk
• Wildlife
• Trust
• Birds
• Birding
• Rarity
• videoscoping

[myjugsarehuge]

Great video but maybe at almost 7 minutes is a little on the long side? I flicked through to the end to see if he did anything unusual just to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

[BirdingWithoutBillOd]

The interest in the video is in the bird (is it Britain's 8th Canvasback or a hybrid), not what it's doing.

[myjugsarehuge]

Well thank you for responding for once, I wasn't sure you knew how to? I have left comments and 5*s on most of your recent videos about how much I have enjoyed them; Water rail, Little Egret, Cirl Bunting but do you acknowledge that I comment on your videos? no you don't bother replying except this once when I say constructively its too long.

Nobody except me comments on half your videos, I'd have thought you would have been grateful someone liked them. Obviously I was wrong. Bye Julie

[BirdingWithoutBillOd]

Ouch!

Sorry Julie, yes I'm glad that you like my video's, thanks for saying so and I'm not ungrateful, I didn't realise I had to respond to every comment on my video's. And thanks for the constructive suggestions, unfortunately I lack a decent video editing program so I can't cut the length of my video's and in this case if the bird wasn't so interesting I probably wouldn't have video'd it at all!

Thanks.

[myjugsarehuge]

Hey no problem, sorry I seemed like an arsey cow, you caught me on a bad day but its been proven that peoples attention span on Youtube is on average 3 minutes. You don't have to reply to every comment, its not the law lol, but a little feedback is nice now and again.

I love my birdwatching but don't get out and about half as much as I'd like right now so its great to watch your videos. We have hen harriers breed near here I'd love to post a video of them, maybe this Summer?