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I think wherever lekking areas overlap you get sharptail/prairie chicken hybrids. You do indeed. Also, as noted a few posts above, crosses between blues and bobs, resulting in blobs. Gotta love the name! Quite a few years back, when I was guiding pheasant hunters in Iowa, I shot the oddest looking rooster I ever saw in the wild. The bird had white wings and a short, white tail. I yelled for my guys to shoot, but apparently they didn't think it was a rooster. I might not have either if I hadn't seen the red eye patch. You'll sometimes see birds like that on preserves, where they've released some albino pheasants and you end up with a cross. But that particular farm wasn't anywhere near a preserve. And by that time, I'd been hunting it for maybe 10 years and had never seen any pheasants that didn't look like you'd expect them to look.
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Mallard drakes will breed with many other species of ducks resulting in weird looking crosses. Sometimes the resulting coloration and shape make it possible to identify the parents, sometimes not. I even know of a cross between a woodie and a mallard, and mallards have crossed with teal as well. https://www.outdoorlife.com/story/hunting/duck-hybrids/
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Scrambles, Blobs, Scaled Mearns.. Wow.. those Scalies are randy little buggers..sort of the Jeffery Epsteins of the gamebird world....
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Mallard drakes will breed with many other species of ducks resulting in weird looking crosses. Sometimes the resulting coloration and shape make it possible to identify the parents, sometimes not. I even know of a cross between a woodie and a mallard, and mallards have crossed with teal as well. https://www.outdoorlife.com/story/hunting/duck-hybrids/I’ve seen both Stan. Not so many hybrids back in Manitoba but here in this part of Ontario, I see one at least once every couple of years.
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Mallard drakes will breed with many other species of ducks resulting in weird looking crosses. Sometimes the resulting coloration and shape make it possible to identify the parents, sometimes not. I even know of a cross between a woodie and a mallard, and mallards have crossed with teal as well. https://www.outdoorlife.com/story/hunting/duck-hybrids/I’ve seen both Stan. Not so many hybrids back in Manitoba but here in this part of Ontario, I see one at least once every couple of years. They sexually harass my neighbor's domestic ducks.
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Have shot at least one mourning/Eurasian dove near Yuma, confirmed by game warden.
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In North America, one of the most common wild hybrids results from mallard/pintail breeding. Mallards also commonly crossbreed with black ducks, wigeon, shovelers, cinnamon teal, green-winged teal, and gadwalls. Wood ducks also will cross breed with a number of other species. Snow geese will cross with Specks, a real weird looking one. I have seen maybe a dozen cross breeds in total, maybe a few more that at the time I did not realize were crosses. Sometimes with juvenile birds it is not that easy to tell. Love know few limits for a mallard. They will jump everything including a traffic cone given a chance.
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Wow, this is crazy. A hybrid Capercaillie/Black grouse, attacking and killing a regular Black grouse. That bird is brutal. Capercaillie x Black Grouse HybridTC
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