The South American wigeon, widespread in Chile Argentina and the
Falklands, particularly in Chile where these shots were taken. Unlike the other two species of Wigeon, there is
little sexual dimorphism; although females tend to be duller there is overlap, I suspect the left-hand shot to
be a female. Common in collections, in the UK at least, resulting in escapes and hybrids, true vagrancy has only
been recorded from subantarctic islands, although birds move north in winter so may have been overlooked in
Brazil etc.
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