<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Note that male Eurasian Wigeons often show some green around the eye. I think this information has been slow in percolating to North American birders, but Brits are familiar with it. The rest of the head will still be copper (with the buttery forehead), the breast will be brown, but the body and flanks will be silver (not an American feature), with a strong demarcation between the brown breast and silver flanks. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/292992921">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/292992921</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">A hybrid adult male should show extensive green by the eye, AND also dark flecking on the face and a blend of silver and brown on the breast, flanks, and body, with little demarcation. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/646270453">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/646270453</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><div class="gmail_default">This bird, for example, is labeled a hybrid, but seems to be a pure Eurasian. The body shows no signs of hybridism. </div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://birdseye.photo/photos/review/202/eurasian_x_american_wigeon_hybrid/">https://birdseye.photo/photos/review/202/eurasian_x_american_wigeon_hybrid/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><font size="4">Note that Eur Wigeon in eclipse (in early fall) has a streaky face and patchy silver and brown on the body -</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/247419881" style=""><font size="4">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/247419881 </font></a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><font size="4">We had a bird like this in Port Townsend last fall that moled into a perfect Eurasian. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I scan our American Wigeon flock here at Lake Lorene in Twin Lakes, Federal Way daily for a Eurasian with a red head. The body on male Eurasian Wigeons is gray, but that is not always easy to pick out, especially when they are feeding on the lawn. Currently we have a hybrid which is mainly Eurasian but still has green on the red head.<div><br></div><div>Good Birding !</div><div><br></div><div>Hans</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM Carolyn Heberlein via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">There are a lot of wigeons at Green Lake. Because of their Buffy foreheads, I thought they were mostly Eurasians.</span></div>
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