Topic: Ornithology help

[rickenmartin78]

Anyone know what kind of duck this is?  He/she was in the Oasis with some other ducks.  I've found many a pictoral list of animals in AK, but this one hasn't turned up yet.

Thanks!


Duck by rickenmartin78, on Flickr

[Scottwdw]

S/he almost looks domestic and found a home in the park.

[RedOctober25]

I think this it what you are looking for.  Based off the bill, I originally thought duck.  But looking at the neck it seemed to long for a duck so I went to goose.  However, a goose's bill looks completely different which led me to swans.  And from there I found this..

The Coscorobas Swan (South America).  If you look at the photos further down, one has a caption of a nesting pair in the Florida swamps.

http://www.avianweb.com/coscorobaswans.html



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[rickenmartin78]

I think this it what you are looking for.  Based off the bill, I originally thought duck.  But looking at the neck it seemed to long for a duck so I went to goose.  However, a goose's bill looks completely different which led me to swans.  And from there I found this..

The Coscorobas Swan (South America).  If you look at the photos further down, one has a caption of a nesting pair in the Florida swamps.

http://www.avianweb.com/coscorobaswans.html



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Thanks so much!!! 

[RedOctober25]

Upon further review, the photo I thought was a florida swamp was just another zooilogical park.  So the region it lives in is just south america.  But if I recall correctly, there are other south american animals a Animal Kingdom (the capybara comes to mind first).


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[zackiedawg]

And the giant anteater, as well as the macaws and probably a few lizards & frogs.
 
Good find on the swan/goose - it definitely didn't look like a duck to me, but geese have a much more bulky and complex bill, so that was throwing me off too.

[rickenmartin78]

Here's another view of the same bird.  Thanks again for the help.  I like to caption my photo books (and do so correctly).