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Horrible Hybrids

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Looks like a scaup of some sort, but it’s not quite right My bird certainly had the peaked crown characteristic of a Lesser Scaup; the feathers on its head looked black at a distance, while closer inspection revealed a purple sheen. I’ve seen some weird-looking hybrids in duck collections. My hunch was Tufted Duck x Pochard.

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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

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The mistake has its origins in 1878, when ornithologists Henry Tristram and Allan Hume both collected specimens of what was then described as Hume’s owl. But back to the race…The vast majority of the teams decided to speed up north at the kick-off and begin to work their way south to Eilat.

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