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Hooded Merganser – Lophdytes cucullatus
What I love about winter in New England is that the pond start to freeze up and it concentrates the ducks and other birds into smaller areas that have open water. At a local pond in Plymouth...
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Leucistic Mallard – Anas platyrhychos
At one of the locations that I photograph at, there mute swans and mallards present along with other species of ducks and geese. I discovered what appears to be a partially leucistic mallard on the...
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Duck Date
Last February I wrote about a pair of interesting puddle ducks I saw in Brooklyn Bridge Park. She was a mallard, Anas platyrhynchos. He was an American black duck, Anas rubripes. She would normally...
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis)
One of the prettiest ducks that winter in the Massachusetts area is the King Eider. Over the last few years, I’ve been looking for the King Eider, in order to obtain some decent photographs of this...
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Last week in wildlife – in pictures
Fighting siskins, zebra-snouted seahorses and the world’s oldest wombat feature in last week’s pick of images from the natural world. This article was written and published by the Guardian UK. Read...
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The Duck Stamp Brings in a Lot of Money
According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), in their 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation report, there are approximately 13.7 million hunters in...
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New Ducks in the Park
I was walking in Brooklyn Bridge Park last week, descending the north-most path in the water gardens. I heard plop plop. Two ducks had slipped from the little bridge into the water. They were two of...
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Shooting ducks is not the way to conserve our coastlines
The threat facing the Dwyfor estuary at Llanystumdwy (Jim Perrin, Country diary, 12 October) is just one example of the assault on British foreshores by the wildfowl lobby. Last year alone wildfowling...
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Eurasian Wigeon, the female
Anas penelope – this species is part of the ‘dabbling’ duck family. Quite common, it nests in northern Eurasia and migrates southernly at the end of summer. Espèce assez commune nichant dans le nord...
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Tufted Ducks
I photographed this pair of tufted ducks in a pond in a park in London where they are common. The male’s eyes are bright yellow, his beak is blue with a black tip, and he has a conspicuous tuft of...
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A Winter’s Morning At Zoar Wetland, Ohio
The past few nights here in the southern portion of Northeast Ohio have been in the teens, so I’ve been thinking about the “odd couple” at Zoar Wetland. This past autumn, a goose and brown duck (no...
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Sirirí pampa (White-faced whistling-Duck) Dendrocygna viduata
No fueron muchas las ocasiones en las que pudimos fotografiar patos al costado del camino de acceso al Club Refugio Ombú en la Provincia de Corrientes; durante las últimas veces que fuimos a la casa...
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Shooting lobby calls for five-year moratorium on duck hunting rules
The shooting lobby has called for a five-year moratorium on new duck hunting restrictions in Victoria, saying it would allow regulators to study the impact of hunting on duck and other waterfowl...
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