Duck, Rügen/Germany (2 Viewers)

[McHeath]

Am I right in thinking that the duck in the centre is a female pintail? Apologies for the quality, shot at extreme long range - photo cropped but unedited. Many thanks in advance!

 

[dwatsonbirder]

It's a male rather than female Pintail - arguably one of the most handsome ducks 👍

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,

do you have more pictures?
Agree with you and Daniel, there is a male Pintail. But the right bird looks like a female Mallard IMO.
Please note bulk body, dark dirty colourarion (and shortish white tail ?)

 

[McHeath]

It's a male rather than female Pintail - arguably one of the most handsome ducks 👍

Thank you! Yes, of course a male - I´d just been looking at female Smews and got mixed up

 

[McHeath]

Hello,

do you have more pictures?
Agree with you and Daniel, there is a male Pintail. But the right bird looks like a female Mallard IMO.
Please note bulk body, dark dirty colourarion (and shortish white tail ?)

Yes, one more picture even worse than the first:



The possible Pintail was the only bird I was unsure of; it was in the company of Mallards, Wigeon, Goldeneye, Coots, Goosanders, Cormorants and Whooper Swans; nice haul at the start of the year (especially when I saw flocks of both Crested Tits and Snow Buntings the next day!)