So the last image is pretty straight forward "Chestnut Teal" but I'm struggling to identify the 1st and 2nd images, I checked my my books & online, they don't appear to be native to Australia so probably introduced species, but not having much luck finding them.

??? ..... with a "Pacific Black" in the background


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Chestnut Teal

[Cee Cee]

fine captures ... big fan of these feathered friends... dave m

thanks dave m, glad you liked them

Very nice captures. To me it looks like maybe a cinnamon teal in the 1st pic. It is a mallard drake in the 2nd (maybe a hybrid of somekind but mallard for sure). And the Chestnut teal in the third.

thanks jwc77, the pictures I see of a cinnamon teal look a little different to me, but maybe another hybrid,
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I have heard that Mallards are breeding with our Australian Black Duck. Why this little black duck may be no more

interesting. Although there seems to be a lot of Pacific Blacks out there, by far the most common duck I see in my travels, (not that I travel too far) that's if they are real pacific blacks and not hybrids

Richard, Matilda, Joseph, and Gustav.

, very good!
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a Pacific Black from the same suburban lake as the others, this one's called Trevor...

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[Lowell Goudge]

I have heard that Mallards are breeding with our Australian Black Duck. Why this little black duck may be no more

I read somewhere that there is not a duck in existence today that does not have a mallard in their heriditary Not sure now where I read that but the cross breeding is a serious issue for the survival of several species as being unique

[gmans]

I read somewhere that there is not a duck in existence today that does not have a mallard in their hereditary Not sure now where I read that but the cross breeding is a serious issue for the survival of several species as being unique

Would be good if the duck shooters would concentrate on the feral Mallards in Australia. But it is probably too late.

[Lowell Goudge]

Would be good if the duck shooters would concentrate on the feral Mallards in Australia. But it is probably too late.

Being the most common species world wide, and given their "promiscuity" with other species, it adds a whole new meaning to the term "Ducks Unlimited" but not the way the wild life organization planned

[gmans]

Duck a l'orange sounds nice.

[pete-tarmigan]

So the last image is pretty straight forward "Chestnut Teal" but I'm struggling to identify the 1st and 2nd images, I checked my my books & online, they don't appear to be native to Australia so probably introduced species, but not having much luck finding them.

??? ..... with a "Pacific Black" in the background


???


Chestnut Teal

The bird in the photo with the Pacific Black Duck in the background looks to me like a hybrid of Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) with Mallard. I base the Muscovy part on the dark, iridescent feathers on the back, and on the carbuncles at the base of the bill. This species is native to Central America and northern South America, but the domesticated form and its hybrids are widespread on farms and in parks. The Mallard part is based on the partial, white ring on the neck and on fact that domesticated breeds of Mallard are widespread. The second photo is a domestic variety of Mallard. The domesticated varieties show all, part, or none of the wild-type plumage. Mallard also hybridizes freely with other species of dabbling duck.

[Cee Cee]

The bird in the photo with the Pacific Black Duck in the background looks to me like a hybrid of Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) with Mallard. I base the Muscovy part on the dark, iridescent feathers on the back, and on the carbuncles at the base of the bill. This species is native to Central America and northern South America, but the domesticated form and its hybrids are widespread on farms and in parks. The Mallard part is based on the partial, white ring on the neck and on fact that domesticated breeds of Mallard are widespread. The second photo is a domestic variety of Mallard. The domesticated varieties show all, part, or none of the wild-type plumage. Mallard also hybridizes freely with other species of dabbling duck.

thanks for the info, looking at pics of Muscovy ducks I would have never made the connection, but I can see what your getting at with the back feathers, and the way mallards put them self about, bound to be in there somewhere . I think you could be on the money here, some of the pics of Muscovy hybrids look quite similar.
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[GeoJerry]

That last one is fabulous!

[Cee Cee]

That last one is fabulous!

thanks GeoJerry, appreciate the comment
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