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mandarin duck
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mandarin duck
see aix galericulata. Called also Dendronessa galericulata.


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Mandarin ducks and Wood ducks look as if someone painted them, with distinct brightly colored green, red, brown and white markings.
The first year a pair of wild mandarin ducks took it over and, when the female was incubating the eggs, the spectacular male spent all of the 28 days sat on top of the nest box.
Andy Bate watched a pair of Mandarin ducks at Mere Sands Wood, Rufford - part of the small feral population that can prove so very elusive there.
 
 
 
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