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I'm embarrassed to say I shot a duck I can't identify. When I pulled the trigger I was thinking hen gadwall or small hen mallard. I'm now leaning hen pintail without the "pin".


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Hen pintail not a gadwall no orange beak or feet and not a hen mallard no purple speculum and orange beak and feet
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Growing up all we ever saw were mallards and black ducks so all these new ducks here are tough to get used to.

I immediately knew it wasn't a mallard from the wings and feet and it just didn't look like a gadwall to me (though I've only seen 3 up close in my life).


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yep, hen pinner
Definitely hen pin. We're you up around Salt Creek? Public Shooting Grounds?? Place crawls with pintails.
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