mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

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Subject:	mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Resolution: 2249x1676 File Size: 678247 Bytes Date: 2012:01:20 12:09:34 Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL (Canon) F number: f/4.5 Exposure: 1/200 sec Focal Length: 21/1 Upload Date: 2017:04:06 16:01:27

mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Author C. G. Finch-Davies (1875–1920) / Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
Description
English: Aix galericulata or Mandarin Duck
Date 17 August 1919
Source/Photographer "The Bird Paintings of CG Finch-Davies" - Transvaal Museum (1984)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aix_galericulata00.jpg

The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet.

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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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