This bright little duck is a mandarin (Aix galericulata) and he lives on the Leeds - Liverpool canal near Saltaire in Yorkshire. He is a bit smaller than a mallard duck, but he holds his own when people are feeding chunks of bread to the ducks at Saltaire.
The mandarin is not a native of the UK, there are around 2,000 of these ornamental ducks here mostly in parks and peoples gardens. I think this one flew off one day and took a liking to the canal and stayed.
This was not the story I was going to post, but that bear one needs more thought.
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This duck has such beautiful colours. I like it lot.
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ReplyDeleteThis is one beautiful duck. I wonder how they evolved this way which is so different from other ducks?
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a duck like that! He is so colorful. He's so beautiful that he almost doesn't look real!
ReplyDeleteThat's the cutest duck I have ever seen!
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Very colourful. Never seen one in these parts.
ReplyDeleteHe is a handsome duck! He reminds me of our wood duck.
ReplyDeleteVery different indeed from Dusty Lens' This mandarin must have staid for a long time at the Hairdresser!
ReplyDeleteA mandarin duck has also found its way to a canal in stoke on trent that we see quite a lot.
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