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Waterfowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

Waterfowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

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Waterfowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

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KylieWaldon wrote:
8 Mar 2025
the freckled ducks are quite common at that site in small numbers, but the shovellers usually only number 2 or 4 across the whole site for some the year. It was really unusual to see that many shovellers. normally I would say they are not together and usually no ducks are on that particular pond but the whole site was flooded so circumstances were different perhaps to the norm..
Spatula rhynchotis
WendyEM wrote:
3 Mar 2025
It so looked like a Muscovy - I had thought it was a young female and had not yet developed the bare facial skin bizzo. I am sure you are right Liam .
Anas platyrhynchos
kasiaaus wrote:
3 Mar 2025
How lovely Wendy. Sorry the fox got it in the end. This one looked very lonely.
Anas platyrhynchos
WendyEM wrote:
3 Mar 2025
I had a lovely pied one as a pet -inner urban Melbourne. She was left anonymously in a box in my front yard. She followed me about like a dog - very grumpy if I stood on her toes as she shadowed me. Survived one fox visit, not a second many years later.
Anas platyrhynchos
SandraH wrote:
7 Feb 2025
He’s a real show-off. Often goes through the splashing/whistling display, although he’s never had a mate
Biziura lobata

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