English and Scientific names:	Garganey, Anas querquedula
Number of individuals:	one, male alternate (breeding) plumage
Locality: LOUISIANA:	Cameron
Specific Locality:	In flooded but not planted ricefield on east side of Arceneaux Road approximately 0.1 mile south of its intersection with Pine Prairie Road. This is about a mile north of Arceneaux Road's intersection with Chaukley Road. The site is about a mile or so east of LA 27 E.
Date(s) when observed:	March 28, 2009
Time(s) of day when observed:	Approximately 3:50 PM CDST
Reporting observer and address:	Jay V. Huner Boyce, LA 71409
Other observers accompanying reporter who also identified the bird(s):	None
Other observers accompanying reporter who also identified the bird(s):	None
Light conditions:	Clear, bright day. Light coming from west as I looked east.
Optical equipment:	10 x 40 Zeiss binoculars
Distance to bird(s):	20 yards`
Duration of observation:	About a minute.
Habitat:	A ricefield prepared for planting with about 3-4" of very muddy water in it.
Behavior of bird:	The Garganey was in the company of two Blue-winged Teal that were feeding in a flock of about 100 Long-billed Dowitchers. When I saw the bird, it appeared nervous and was swimming from west to east diagonally away from me.
Description:	I saw a teal with a reddish brown head and a, as the book describes, old white eyebrow separating the crown from the face. I really did not take any notice of the rest of the bird because I was so struck by the white eyebrow. I have never seen a living duck like that. Both the crown and the face appeared to be reddish brown color seen in male Green-winged Teal. My notes state "white eyeband. reddish above and below." I sketched a head showing the eyeband above the eye and below the crown. The eyeband appeared to be narrower than those depicted in field guides. The bird was about the same size as the Blue-winged Teal it was accompanying.
Voice:	Not heard.
Similar species:	Blue-winged Teal - no white eyeband and face not reddish brown. Green-winged Teal - no white eyeband, only part of face reddish brown, and smaller than the bird in question.
Photographs or tape recordings obtained?	None.
Previous experience with this species?	None. The best I can say is that I see Garganeys in my field guides from time to time. For some reason I thought immediately Garganey when I suddenly realized that it was not a Green-winged Teal. National Geographic Field Guide.
Identification aids: at time of observation:	National Geographic Field Guide.
after observation:	Sibley's Field Guide. Madge and Burn. Waterfowl: An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston - New York. 1988.
Notes made from?	Notes taken at time of observation - no camera anyway. After observation. And later from memory.
Are you positive of your identification? If not, explain:	Yes. The only issue, in my mind, is whether or not it is a wild bird or an escapee from an exotic waterfowl breeder's collection
Reporter:	Jay V. Huner
Date and time:	March 28, 2009, 8:32 PM.