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Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks4.jpg
| Subject: | Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks4.jpg
| | Poster: | Martin Kramer (mkramer@wxs.nl)
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File date : 1999:03:17 09:00:00
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Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Posted Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:43:50 GMT |
Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata)
Martin Kramer
mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/
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From: mkramer@wxs.nl (Martin Kramer)
Subject: Re: Birds from El Paso Birdpark - glossy_starling2.jpg
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 06:18:28 GMT
Rich D wrote:
>Very nice pics. Particularly the mandarin ducks. The mandarin ducks
>I've seen before look different.
As far as I know these are ordinary mandarin ducks But part of their
wings or wing feathers was missing to prevent them escaping. That could
explain the difference. Maybe I should not post pictures of mutilated
birds, but they still looked very cute, alo because they were making
a nice couple.
Martin Kramer
mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/
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Scientific Name: Aix galericulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Names: Mandarin Duck, Mandarin
French: Canard mandarin; German: Mandarinente; Spanish: Pato mandarín
Taxonomy: Anas galericulata Linnaeus, 1758, China. |
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