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Wednesday
Jan132010

Mandarin Ducks

A male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata).

And a female:

And, what I presume is an immature male:

Photos taken beside the middle lake in Whiteknights Park,  Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-01-09.

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