Dozens of Wrybills browsing around here, walking running to here to there, nice to observing how energetic they moving in the wetsand tide zone!
This hybrid doesn't seem to exist on inat. The female is pure Pateke, but the male has several mallard traits such as a grey tail, and a particularly green head.
Seen at Hutton's Shearwater colony at the head of the Kowhai River Seaward Kaikoura Ranges. Photos taken near the Hutton's Shearwater research hut.