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Duck ID

Postby duckbuster330 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:57 pm

One of the roustabouts brought this in this morning. They caught it out on deck. I guess it got caught in one of the northerns that came through. We are 127 miles from the nearest land. We get doves and birds all the time but this is the first duck.
I am thinking a lesser scaup hen.
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Re: Duck ID

Postby The Waterfowler » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:26 pm

It's a Lesser Scaup, but an immature Drake. A hen will have a brown head.
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Re: Duck ID

Postby LODI QUACKER » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:10 pm

QUIT QUEEZING HIM YOUR GIVING HIM A NOSE BLEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Duck ID

Postby theHammer » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:13 pm

125 miles from land? Where yall at?
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Re: Duck ID

Postby Ducks be us » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:02 pm

I hear about dux gettin stranded on rigs sometimes...to weak to go on reckon. Turn em loose at Wingmans place...he'll live like a king 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Duck ID

Postby mmkenty » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:26 pm

thats a lesser scaup i shoot mamy of em and by the why that is a immature drake
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Re: Duck ID

Postby Agua » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:28 pm

Man, he sacked out in the box.
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Re: Duck ID

Postby River Hunter » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:59 pm

theHammer wrote:125 miles from land? Where yall at?



Oil Rig would be my guess
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Re: Duck ID

Postby mudsucker » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:35 pm

Does he have a band? :?
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Re: Duck ID

Postby duckbuster330 » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:26 am

Nope, No Band. First thing I checked :D
He is gonna get a free ride in to land today and get turned loose.
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Re: Duck ID

Postby crackhead » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:20 am

Make a band and but on his foot
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Re: Duck ID

Postby H20fowlkiller » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:37 am

duckbuster330 wrote:Nope, No Band. First thing I checked :D
He is gonna get a free ride in to land today and get turned loose.

make sure you got a good grip on on in that helicopter, if he gets loose that would be bad
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Re: Duck ID

Postby BAY KINGFISHER » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:33 pm

I saw several Dos gris during my five yrs offshore, unfortunatetly none of them ever made it. We used to see lots of tropical birds, doves, falcons, hawks, hummingbirds, and swarms of dragonflies or butterflies!!! Never know what youd wake up to after a front past during the night. It was always entertaining to watch the falcons chase the dove around the platform or a barracuda chomp down a bird the ended up in the Gulf!!!
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Re: Duck ID

Postby Wingman » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:49 pm

Just let it go.

Several of the satellite transmitter bluebills are in the ocean right now. One in Cuba, another in the Gulf near Destin. Yet another is near Tampico, Mexico.

That duck probably isn't lost, just tired. You take it back to land and it's gonna have to fly another 127 miles back toward the rig that it already flew, if it is headed toward Cuba.
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Re: Duck ID

Postby duckcampGrady » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:25 pm

alot of times if the eye is red, yellow or orange its a drake , most hens have brown or dark brown eyes / of course alot of species of drakes and hens have brown eyes........... there are some nice hens out there that have blonde hair and blue eyes :lol:
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