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[GobblerHntr]

It doesn't matter if you don't want to be correct. But considering they are doing a Mottled study you'd think they want to be as accurate as possible.

Don't try getting me all spun up

[GobblerHntr]

*note

You've turned me into a bottom fisherman. So now idgaf about mottled ducks!

[Lowcountry Boy]

Congrats on the band, nice hunt.


The bander was a dumbass. I wonder how many other "black ducks" got banded that day?

This is excellent ammo for the argument against MRP.

[GobblerHntr]

Just so you know the mottleds here were released too!

[Lowcountry Boy]

Yeah, that's what the M stands for!

[GobblerHntr]

Great recovery

[Relentlous]

It doesn't matter if you don't want to be correct. But considering they are doing a Mottled study you'd think they want to be as accurate as possible.

Don't try getting me all spun up

Squatty my buddy called it in cause he was the one to actually kill the bird. When he called he told the person on the band hotline it was a mallard mottled hybrid. She said "good job on calling it a hybrid, but it's a black duck." We are 100% positive it's a mottled. Either way it looked cool. If he tells me the biologist name I'll shoot it to ya.

[Catdaddy]

Just so you know the mottleds here were released too!

Finally somebody pointed that out.


Also I have personally seen black ducks nesting and raising broods in SC. This was before the Mottled ducks were introduced.

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[GobblerHntr]

Finally somebody pointed that out.


Also I have personally seen black ducks nesting and raising broods in SC. This was before the Mottled ducks were introduced.

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I don't recall ever denying the fact they were

[GobblerHntr]

Squatty my buddy called it in cause he was the one to actually kill the bird. When he called he told the person on the band hotline it was a mallard mottled hybrid. She said "good job on calling it a hybrid, but it's a black duck." We are 100% positive it's a mottled. Either way it looked cool. If he tells me the biologist name I'll shoot it to ya.

That would have been a very fun conversation for me.

[2thDoc]

good stuff

the bander's name likely wont help you. it wont necessarily be the person making the call on the hybrid.

[GobblerHntr]

2th it works like this......

He/she is the supervisor of the banding project. In essence the success or failure of the work is the responsibility of that person. Kind of like coming to a dentist's office and getting your teeth cleaned. The dentist isn't the one cleaning but he or she is the one responsible for signing off on the work

[BOGSTER]

That bird's probably not F1.
In all the mottmallards and black/mallard F1's I've seen photos/personally 98% of them have a curl tail to some degree.
That mallard characteristic must be very strong because it even shows in mule ducks where the sprig will curl upwards and often they will have a single curl in front of the sprig.

I'm guessing that duck's parents were mottmallard and true mottled.

That's a shame. Regardless if mottleds were introduced or not.
Introducing a wild non-migratory species doesn't rub me as wrong as introducing an invasive, domestic, semi-migratory one.

Hybridization of mottleds isn't why the MRP is wrong, so let's not get hung on that.
Hell of a hunt dude.

[Catdaddy]

I don't recall ever denying the fact they were

You didn't.


Alot of senerios are possible in a case like this, but the banding site being McClellanville is the most telling. It all points to a mottled/mallard hybrid.


In the end, it was a nice duck that responds to a call and decoys, so it's still a win-win.