Hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler

 

 
hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler hybrid Australian and Northern Shoveler

This duck appears to be a hybrid between a Northern Shoveler and an Australasian Shoveler. He was in a group of Northern Shovelers.

He has the white face stripe of the Australasian Shoveler and a mottled brown body but (almost) the white chest of the Northern Shoveler.
hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler

Thanks to Joern Lehmhus, hybrid duck expert in Germany, for confirmation that this drake is, as suspected, a hybrid of Northern and Australasian Shoveler parents
hybrid Australian and Northern Shoveler

The hybrid drake was in a group of Northern Shovelers
hybrid Australasian and Northern Shoveler eclipse hybrid Australian and Northern Shoveler eclipse

The "eclipse" plumage looks very similar to the Australasian Shoveler
     

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Northern Shoveler Australian Shoveler New Zealand Shoveler Red Shoveler