{"id":266,"date":"2021-04-07T07:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=266"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:09:37","slug":"hybrid-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/hybrid-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Waterfowl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducks.org\/Conservation\/Waterfowl-Research-Science\/Waterfowl-Hybrids\">hybridize <\/a>more than any other type of bird, and Mallards are some of the most prolific when it comes to this behavior.  I saw this bird yesterday, and was confused (for a while) about whether it was a Mallard\/American Black Duck hybrid or just an immature\/nonbreeding male. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-1536x1060.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px-1568x1082.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP6257-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-mallard-1680px.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But then he stretched his wings out and I got a clear view of the speculum patch, which was bordered with white:  a sure sign of a Mallard and not an American Black Duck, and thus this bird was not a hybrid after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px-1568x1081.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMGP-2021-04-06-CVNP-Ira-Road-Beaver-Marsh-hybrid-with-Mallard-1680px.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterfowl hybridize more than any other type of bird, and Mallards are some of the most prolific when it comes to this behavior. I saw this bird yesterday, and was confused (for a while) about whether it was a Mallard\/American Black Duck hybrid or just an immature\/nonbreeding male. But then he stretched his wings out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/hybrid-ducks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hybrid Ducks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50,49,48],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-american-black-duck","tag-hybrid","tag-mallard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}