Sharing with Wild Bird Wednesday
19 July 2012
Maned (Wood) Ducks
Seen recently when on a morning walk near to home; wood ducks as they're commonly referred. They'll often fly up into the gum trees; quite high. My Readers Digest Birds of Australia book tells me their voice is: nasal 'mnow'. Guess you'd have to be an ornithologist to have got that one together. I can piece it together to the sound of the duck, but I'd never have thought to describe it that way.
Your bird photographs turned out lovely!
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adorable! such tiny little bills!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful pictures of the wood ducks.
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What beautiful, rather elegant-looking ducks!
ReplyDeleteThese are very different from the wood ducks we have here.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures of some beautiful ducks)
ReplyDeleteDie Ente sieht sehr hübsch aus, ganz anders wie in Deutschland!
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Lieben Gruss Elke
Wood-Ducks have such pretty little faces. Lovely top capture Carole.
ReplyDeleteVery handsome and delicate looking ducks! Their plumage is beautiful! Much different from our wood ducks.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Wood Ducks! Great shots, Carole! Have a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful duck! Hear is a link to a wood duck sound: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?sortBy=has+audio&viewType=list&curFamilyID=235
ReplyDeleteA very handsome duck Carole.
ReplyDeletewhat a gorgeous bird. such character. i love how you can see all the details in the feathers. too awesome. (:
ReplyDeleteGreat ducks - I got some shots of these a few weeks ago as well.
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Stewart M - Australia
Beautiful little Duck, but they look closer related to a Goose.
ReplyDeletecan´t remember seeing this one before. It is very nice. I guess the first one is the male. :)
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