Fwd: Identifying your bird photo

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From: Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 21:48
Subject: Identifying your bird photo
To: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>

Hi Ron, 

I downloaded an interesting FREE bird identifying app and had it conduct a search based on your photo, geographic location, date , etc. 

Pretty interesting. The app named "Merlin" is provided by Cornell University. It can also identify birds by recorded sounds. 

So, at first try it tentatively identified your bird as a "King Eider" or a "Wood Duck". (See 3 attached screenshots)

There was another possibility that it could be some rare bird which you'll see, but I lost the name and wasn't able to replicate it. 

But I don't think it was a "black swan" which would be so fitting for these times. 

Talk soon,

Steve