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When ducks flunk swimming lessons. Sad, really. (Original Post)
sl8
Jul 2018
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Bayard
(22,181 posts)1. Lousy immigrant duck!
That's a domestic Muskovey in the water. Looks like a wild species getting a free ride.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)3. The white duck is a muscovy, native of Mexico and Central America
As usual the immigrant duck has to carry the load for the native one!
The brown duck might be a cinnamon teal, but from this angle I am not sure.
Bantamfancier
(366 posts)4. Agree on the muscovy.
The neck ring says that isn't a teal.
May be a cross. The color pattern is all juked up.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)5. The neck ring almost looks like a wear pattern
But it's hard to make a definite ID without knowing where the picture was taken. I only have bird ID books for Eastern and Western North America and for the UK, so there are a lot of places where that reddish bird could live that I can't ID from my books.