Interesting waterfowl you have shot?

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What bizarre/strange/cool/interesting/unusual ect waterfowl have you harvested? Let's see em!
I shot a dandy mallard drake this morning with some cool white shoulders and highlights.

 
I can remember the first flock of redheads that ever came in to my decoys, I was pretty excited... and the first canvasback drake that I ever shot.... in our flyway both species are rare.

Edit; I just recalled the first oldsquaw drake I shot as a teenager... I had no idea what the heck it was and had to look it up in my Petersen's guide.
 
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Only thing really interesting for me was a speckled belly goose that had cancer. While cleaning it, we discovered the thing was riddled with tumors.
 
I am somewhat ashamed to post this........ this was 2005, and I was on a swampy part of my land......... took him amongst a mallard and a woody

I was junp shooting puddle ducks and this guy was among them........ nowhere near where he was supposed to be and totally my mistake.........

I reported myself to the mnr and I must say they were excellent........ let me keep him for a mount, which I use as a reminder......

Male harlequin.......

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Superbrad, are Harlequins rare or protected in Ontario? They are uncommon in SK too but are still on licence as are all other ducks. i've seen quite a few in BC. I'd love to shoot one. Once.
 
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Superbrad, are Harlequins rare or protected in Ontario? They are uncommon in SK too but are still on licence as are all other ducks. i've seen quite a few in BC. I'd love to shoot one. Once.
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They are completely protected....... and specifically prohibited from shooting in our regs.......

They are sea ducks by nature and head down the coast typically....... very far from here usually........

I snuck up on a known pond planning on doing some jump shooting, and several ducks took flight against a setting sun......

As I had zero in the bag, I was not worried about species limit..... I actually had to reload the 870 after taking two mallards with three shots........ that guy was a late flusher.........

I personally think I was lucky with a warden that didn't want to do paperwork (and he is a personal friend of mine as well)......

I think I did it justice
 
I'll have to do some digging through the archives for pictures but to date I shot what I call a whatsit duck. Still have never been able to i.d it and I shot a mallard one year in november that I called the hermaphrodite mallard. The plumage was half drake and half hen. As for geese I shot a banded Canada that was too young to fly when banded. It was hatched and banded in 1997 in Issungua Province, Greenland and I shot it in New Liskeard, Ontario in 2004.
 
Mallard drake/pintail hybrid years ago. Redhead with one foot missing. The only ones that stand out less the female Canada Goose that was banded 10 years before inn Kentucky where it was "at least" one year old...
 
Coots. didn't take any pictures, but when we were picking up our dead ducks we had a few that had narrow bills and non-webbed feet, I said "I'm not sure what we have here pal, but they aren't ducks as I know them" after some intense googling we learned about Coots, they tasted just fine :d
 
My pops shot a common murre in Orilia while we were hunting buffleheads back in 2008. Not sure how a murre found its way to Orillia, but there it was! I recall when I went to retreive the bird, I was stumped as to what the heck it was. I was convinced it was a flying penguin. Unfortunately I lost the photos of it, but for anyone who didnt know any better, they would have thought it was a penguin!
 
Don't have a pic of it but around 2004 I shot a common eider at Delta Marsh in Manitoba. A bit unusual in that neck of the woods. A very big duck!

Birds show up in the strangest places. Two - three years ago I was visiting my dad at his condo in Winnipeg close by the new stadium behind Victoria hospital and overlooking the old Southwood golf course that had been let go. His condo was on the 4th floor, just above the tree tops and I looked out and saw a swallow-tailed kite. Large bird and unmistakable looking. Spectacular! Only problem is they live along the Gulf coast and across Florida.
 
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