Many papers have been written about waterfowl hybrids and a lot of information is available, but there is still great interest in the subject because of identification difficulties and possible confusion with potential vagrants (Perrins 1961--but still up to date!; Gillham & Gillham 1996, 1998) or the problems created by interbreeding (e.g. between introduced and natural populations, Delany 19

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