- Feb 19 10:12 am
#87256
Here's a photo of two Scaup. I've been told that Lesser Scaup have a purple iridescence in the head, and Greater Scaup a green iridescence, but that that fieldmark is unreliable. So here we have birds with green and purple iridescence, yet they apear to me to be the same structurally. Are they different species or not?
They were part of a large mixed flock of scaup as well as wigeon, shovelers, bufflehead, pintail, gadwall, etc on the sewage lagoon across the river from Port Alberni on Vancouver Island.
https://flic.kr/p/EQCbNr
Sandy McRuer
Port Alberni, BC
They were part of a large mixed flock of scaup as well as wigeon, shovelers, bufflehead, pintail, gadwall, etc on the sewage lagoon across the river from Port Alberni on Vancouver Island.
https://flic.kr/p/EQCbNr
Sandy McRuer
Port Alberni, BC