These are not great photos (the lighting was very bad and distance was great), but we can still ID this duck as a female Barrow's Goldeneye as follows:
- Merlin bird ID app identified this bird as either a Common Goldeneye or a Barrow's Goldeneye. Believe it is a female Barrow's Goldeneye for the reasons given below.
- Its bill is mostly yellow-orange with a black tip and looks stubby. A female Common Goldeneye usually has a mostly black bill with a yellow tip that does not look stubby.
- It has the steep forehead and flat crown (see 1st photo) of a Barrow's Goldeneye.
- It has a dark brown head (see 1st photo). Usually a female Common Goldeneye has a lighter brown head.
The Barrow's Goldeneye is a new species to our ebird Photographic Life List, which now stands at 1,190.
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