Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks1.jpg

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Subject:	Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks1.jpg
Poster:	Martin Kramer (mkramer@wxs.nl)

MKramer-Mandarin ducks1-pair from El Paso Birdpark-La Palma.jpg

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Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin_ducks1.jpg

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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