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Horrible Hybrids

10,000 Birds

Lars Svensson’s accompanying text explains “a rather puzzling fact is that, among wildfowl, hybrids appear to occur more commonly among geese and members of the ‘pochards’, genus Aythya , than among dabbling ducks. Further research revealed the Bird Hybrids blog ( [link] ) has several revealing photographs of this (and many other) hybrids.

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