water bird id needed please

[nosferatu]

i was visiting my son in the midlands and went out with the camera to take pics when i saw this beautiful duck , but have not a clue what it is help! im not avid watcher in fact know little except obvious birds, so can anyone id this please.

[rolf]

Hi Gail, welcome to the forum. Looks like a hybrid of some sort, certainly not a native duck and not any species that I recognise. The colours are pretty extreme, must have been bred for those colours.

[Chocky]

Hi Gail. Welcomr to the foum.
Looks like the Black East indies duck . They have a iridescent Black / green colour. Here are some I uploaded a couple os weeks ago
http://www.thamesvalleybirds.co.uk/n...dies-duck.html

and a web site which will tell you about them
Black East Indies ducks/Domestic waterfowl Club

[rolf]

Ah well done Beryl.

[Chocky]

Thanks Rolf. They are lovely ducks and large. Quite a few escapees at Bicton Botanical gardens a and also at Dawlish

[ladylouise62]

They are certainly striking.

[nosferatu]

hi thanks for replies i thought this at first when i did a bit of poking around,this bird is now solved thanks to an email i recieved its a cayuga duck apparently this is from someone who breeds them. for anyone interested heres a few sites

http://www.cayuga.co.uk/
other sites:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...a%3DX%26um%3D1

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3D21%26um%3D1

[Chocky]

Yes. They have the dark beak an not so iridescent . Well done

[nosferatu]

yes chocky seems they can be more so in summer when sun shining which i think whats happened when i took this picture. still a good result thanks to everyone for their help