Wigeon

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Wigeon are dabbling ducks in the genus Anas. There are three species: the Eurasian Wigeon, the American Wigeon and the Chilöe Wigeon. Widgeon is an alternative, though archaic, spelling; the American Wigeon has in the past been known as Baldpate.

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All three are similarly-shaped, with a steep forehead and bulbous rear to the head. Males have a distinctive breeding plumage, in their eclipse plumage they resemble females, which are similar in appearance year-round.[citation needed]

The thee species closest relatives are believed to be the Gadwall and the Falcated Duck and the five are together sometimes separater from Anas into their own genus Mareca.[citation needed]

All three wigeon species hybridise in captivity,[1] and American and Eurasian Wigeons hybridise in the wild.[2] An American Wigeon × Mallard hybrid has also been recorded [3]

  1. ^ Jiguet 1999
  2. ^ Carey 1993
  3. ^ Mallard X American Wigeon Hybrid on the Southern High Plains of Texas, Alan M. Fedynich, Olin E. Rhodes, Jr., The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 179-181, doi:10.2307/3672079 [1]

  • Bailey, H. H. (1919) An interesting hybrid of Mareca penelope (Widgon) and Mareca americana (Baldpate) Wilson Bulletin 31:25
  • Harrison, J. M. and J. G. Harrison (1968) Wigeon × Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon British Birds (magazine) 61: 169-171
  • Watson, G. E. (1970) A presumed wild hybrid Baldpate × Eurasian Wigeon The Auk 87: 353-7
  • Shiota, T. (1987) [A challenge in the identificaiton of hybrid American and Eurasian Wigeon] Yacho 496:6, 18-19 (in Japanese)
  • Carey, Geoff J. (1993) Hybrid male wigeon in East Asia Hong Kong Bird Report 1992 160-6
  • Harrop, Andrew (1994) Photo-forum: a presumed hybrid American Wigeon in Grampian Birding World 7:116-7
  • MacKay, Andrew (1996) Hybrid wigeon resembling American Wigeon in Leicestershire Birding World' 9:146-7
  • Jiguet, Frédéric (1999) Photo-forum: hybrid American Wigeons Birding World 12(6):247-52

Photographs of hybrid wigeons can be seen here and here.

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