Yellow-billed (Speckled) Teal x Ferruginous Duck

captive Yellow-billed Teal x Ferruginous Duck hybrid (front, with Yellow-billed Teal behind), Oost, Texel (Netherlands), 5th February 2012 - copyright Joern Lehmhus

(photo ID: 0647)

The photos (including the ones below) show a pale reddish-brown breast with washed out dark spotting.  Joern also draws attention to the white tips of the greater coverts before the speculum and the secondaries with broader white tips, also getting much paler towards the base on the outermost secondaries.  Some scapulars show narrow paler fringes.

captive Yellow-billed Teal x Ferruginous Duck hybrid (with Yellow-billed Teal in first two shots, and other wildfowl), Oost, Texel (Netherlands), 5th February 2012 - copyright Joern Lehmhus

(photo IDs: 0644-0646)

Joern had seen this bird before and notes that the flank feathers were more greyish (above) than they had been in previous years (below).

captive Yellow-billed Teal x Ferruginous Duck hybrid (with Yellow-billed Teal top right and Red-crested Pochard centre), Oost, Texel (Netherlands), 29th September 2009 - copyright Joern Lehmhus

(photo ID: 0738)

captive Yellow-billed Teal x Ferruginous Duck hybrid (with probable Wood Duck x Greater Scaup hybrid in top left picture), Oost, Texel (Netherlands), September 2010 - copyright Joern Lehmhus

(photo ID: 0711)

Yellow-billed Teal Anas flavirostris
Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca