Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks3.jpg

Query: Mandarin duck

Result: 52^nd of 205

Subject:	Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin ducks3.jpg
Poster:	Martin Kramer (mkramer@wxs.nl)

MKramer-Mandarin ducks3-pair from El Paso Birdpark-La Palma.jpg

File size : 61720 bytes File date : 1999:03:17 09:00:00 Resolution: 874x592 Jpeg process : Baseline Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:43:21 GMT

Birds from El Paso Birdpark - mandarin_ducks3.jpg

Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata)

Martin Kramer

mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/

Comments
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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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