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Flying steamer duck (Tachyeres patachonicus). The green on the bill would seem to identify this is as the flying rather than the flightless version, though this one did no flying. Just "steamed" in panic across the water. From boat on Rio Deseado estuary. Atlantic coast, Argentina.
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