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[Globetrotter.uk]

Anyone I'd this please, spotted outside Buckingham palace

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[ozzy1977]

Looks like a duck to me

 

[Coldfeet]

Aw, I was gonna say that.

 

[Andy T]

.............................

 

[Mesquite]

Looks like a duck to me

Get it right man... it's a BROWN duck

Sheesh... these guys with their generalities

 

[Barn Owl]

Indian runner duck

 

[Toddy]

Eh ? I openly acknowledge that you know your birds Tam, but do Indian runner ducks not walk upright like penguins ?

Looks like a ruddy duck, except it's missing the black overhead stripe

M

 

[mountainm]

Get it right man... it's a BROWN duck

Sheesh... these guys with their generalities

A Royal Brown Duck I'll have you know..... Pay attention to regional variances.

 

[shaggystu]

...but do Indian runner ducks not walk upright like penguins ?...

It's ducking.

 

[Barn Owl]

Eh ? I openly acknowledge that you know your birds Tam, but do Indian runner ducks not walk upright like penguins ?

Looks like a ruddy duck, except it's missing the black overhead stripe

M

Aye, looking at the pic, the legs are the wrong colour, to be near folk as such, i surmise it to be some sort of other domesticated/hybrid.
(now i've said that, it'll turn out to be a first for the british isles,lol)

 

[greensurfingbear]

Id go with some kind of duck hybrid, the lack of mottled feathers kinda makes me think that ......maybe a ruddy duck hybridised with a domesticated species. The black leg and beak makes me think Ruddy.

It does look a little like a fawn indian runner but Toddy is right its posture looks wrong.

 

[scrubcutter]

Eh ? I openly acknowledge that you know your birds Tam, but do Indian runner ducks not walk upright like penguins ?

Looks like a ruddy duck, except it's missing the black overhead stripe

M

Do you mean Ruddy Shelduck?

 

[Toddy]

Sorry Scrubcutter, I'm not much up on ducks
I know Indian runner ducks though 'cos I worked Country comes to the City days for five years and the star of the show was Mark and his amazing sheep dog and duck display ....and he used Indian runner ducks.

http://www.drakesofhazard.co.uk/

Ruddy ducks I know of because of a discussion among smallholder friends about how the ruddy ducks were interbreeding and causing problems.

I need to google ruddy shelducks

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Bowlander]

Its a ruddy shelduck. Ruddy ducks are smaller and rarely walk on land, the DEFRA fatwa on them has nearly wiped them out - they're a US escapee that is hybridising with white headed ducks.

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[Globetrotter.uk]

Cheers guys now maybe swmbo will stop asking me.

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