Black duck

So I killed this black duck, he has a little green on both sides of his head. You can see it in the first picture. I didn’t take a picture of the other side of his head but if you zoom in on the second picture you can almost make out the green on that side. He had about the same amount of green on both sides. I sent the biologist pictures and never really got a direct answer on the possibility of it being a hybrid. I sent hevishot some pictures and we talked about it as well. Just curious to see what y’all think.

Could be. Good haul either way.

Damn good strap! I have killed blacks before with a green tint on their head and as big as a Cornish hen. Rare harvest for sure, congrats.

Killed those birds in the picture plus another mallard Saturday and 2 more blacks, a mallard and 2 wigeon Sunday.

Not a hybrid, just a faint genetic trace. I shot one similar on the crow creek soa hunt two years ago along with a another that had zero green, Blake Wilson mounted them together for me. Black ducks love that area for some reason.

I think I saw both of those birds at Blake’s picking up my pintails.

I remember you posting about that hunt but I thought you said that one of the birds you killed was a black/mallard hybrid.

Not supposed to be any iridescence on the head of a true black duck. There is a mallard in the wood pile somewhere.

I thought it was at the time, then when I dropped them off with Blake he said a hybrid is species 1 X species 2, and the one I had was black X black with a mallard in the wood pile. Here is the original thread with pictures of them, middle bird had zero green, bottom one is the one I thought was a hybrid. If I knew how to post pictures I’d upload the mount, he did a great job on them.

http://www.aldeer.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2372823

F2 hybrid

So pretty much a bird that is a few generations removed from the mallard involved I guess? I’d love to see pictures of the mount.

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Hybrid. All day everyday. A lot of the blacks killed now got a trace of mallard in them. I would say second or third generation hybrid.

Killed a few that looked like that, back when I was killing black ducks. I don't think I ever killed a true black duck, one without any white on either side of the speculum.

Nice strap by the way!

This was the strap from Sunday minus one black duck.



This was all we managed this morning. Not much but I’ll take it over what we were seeing the first half of the season.

I'm guessing these aren't Crenshaw County hunts ? Congrats on some great straps

Here is the pair I killed last year that Blake did for me. There is a whole lot going on, and really hard to get a pic that shows it all.

All Alabama birds. The two gadwall this morning were in Crenshaw though.

I have admired this mount since you first posted them on here a year or so ago. I don’t know the Blake Wilson fella but I’d love for him to do my drake and hen.

My brother killed a hybrid that had a distinct green stripe on its head, I mean like a greenwing teal stripe. I’ll try to stop by his place and get a pic.

I don't even know why black ducks are so beautiful to me but dang they are cool ducks!!

Not a hybrid/cross