White-cheeked Pintail
Laguna Atascosa NWR, Texas
6 December 1978

This was the 1st Texas record of this species and even today (2012) remains the only accepted Texas record of this species. There have been one or two others, but they were thought to be escaped birds from waterfowl fanciers and those records were not accepted by the Texas BRC.

There is a cropped image and also the original image as seen through a 400mm lens. A Mottled Duck is in the foreground.