Mystery Ducks in Kerrville Park

These exotic ducks were photographed in Kerrville's Flatrock Park.

Normally, Ken and Yvonne are the people we go to for bird identification, but in this case they are stumped.


Update: The Rudine Team answers their own question.

Ken writes a few hours later:
“It's a cross between a goose and a duck called a Shelduck.!

The flock we saw must have had thirty or so and they were all along the banks of the Guadalupe.

It's native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Nile River Valley and in Southern Israel. There is an article that our man Gary Clark did on them in November 2011. If you Google Egyptian Geese there is quite a bit of information on them.”