Duck ID Help?

Jeff Reardon

Jeff Reardon

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As I said in an earlier post, we are seeing the early migration start to ramp up here in Maine, with resident geese bunching up, teal starting to show, and shorebird migration now probably past its peak.

This species also showed up. Any help on ID? See photos in link.

https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-08-29/big-yellow-ducks-return-to-belfast-harbor
 
Would be interesting to set an eider rig in front of them. Sit on the dock between the Joys. The photos from that hunt would make the family album.
 
SJ Fairbank said:
Would be interesting to set an eider rig in front of them. Sit on the dock between the Joys. The photos from that hunt would make the family album.
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LOL. Given Maine's fairly permissive standard of 100yards from houses, that might even be legal. My guess is hunting for black ducks might be more productive than eiders.
 
They are obviously an invasive species especially if one migrated to Islesboro last year. Better get on with control measures.
 
Brad Bortner said:
They are obviously an invasive species especially if one migrated to Islesboro last year. Better get on with control measures.
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I prefer to think of them as I do Stellars Sea Eagle that has graced the Maine coast the last two winters and is spending its summers up in Newfoundland and Labrador-rare interlopers, sadly lost and unable to find their way back to their natural habitat. But the Sea Eagle is still solo after delighting bird watchers for several seasons. (It's apparently rare even where it belongs in the northern Pacific.) These things are finding mates and multiplying--like the gray seals that have come back to the New England coast after many years of absence.
 
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