{"id":526,"date":"2010-08-25T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=526"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:04:56","slug":"cinnamon-x-blue-winged-teal-hybrid-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2010\/08\/25\/cinnamon-x-blue-winged-teal-hybrid-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal Hybrid Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CinnamonBlue-winged x Cinnamon Teal hybrid –\u00a0 D200, f6.3, 1\/500, ISO 400, 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

In late May, 2010\u00a0while photographing at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I took images of this duck, but I wasn’t aware at the time that I was photographing a hybrid. I was focused on the moment, the light was great, the duck was active & displaying and the setting was wonderful.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I pulled the image up on my monitor that I saw that this duck was a hybrid, which turned out to be Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal hybrid.\u00a0 I searched the internet looking for other images of this hybrid cross and came up empty handed.<\/p>\n

I know that birders can not count hybrids on their lists, but as an\u00a0bird photographer I was thrilled to get this image and the others I took of this unusual duck.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

I made a change on the ID of this duck April 14, 2015 thanks to Michael Retter!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t until I pulled the image up on my monitor that I saw that this duck was a hybrid, which turned out to be Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal hybrid.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,163,27,123,26],"tags":[4004,7201,4008,2439,3505,14704,126,127,4094,4035,3972,343,972,7108,4095,102],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-bird-identification","category-avian","category-duck-hybrids","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-blue-winged-teal","tag-box-elder-county","tag-cinnamon-teal","tag-cinnamon-x-blue-winged-teal","tag-cross","tag-ducks-2","tag-hybrid","tag-marsh","tag-nature-photography","tag-northern-utah","tag-photography","tag-spatula-cyanoptera","tag-spatula-discors","tag-wetlands","tag-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cinnamon-blue-winged-teal-hybrid-mia-mcpherson-2118.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-8u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7443,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/02\/06\/some-of-the-birds-i-love-at-bear-river-national-wildlife-refuge\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":0},"title":"Some of the Birds I Love at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite locations to photograph birds in northern Utah is Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. 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