🔥 A very colorful Mandarin duck

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image showing 🔥 A very colorful Mandarin duck

Grievous_1982 on October 24th, 2020 at 10:09 UTC »

Ducking Stylish.

Tartifloutte on October 24th, 2020 at 11:25 UTC »

Photo credit to Kjetil Salomonsen, a birder from Bergen (Norway).

This little Mandarin duck was the attraction of the month here in Bergen, mostly because he is a juvenile that was spotted alone in a small pond with still his immature plumage on. Between early October and last weekend, people have gone there often and were able to see the progression of his colors from immature to a vibrant grown male.

For reference, here is the same individual that I captured about 10 days prior, look at the difference in colors not even two weeks can make!

bruit666 on October 24th, 2020 at 12:38 UTC »

Mandarin Ducks are so beautiful, here in Berlin there is a quite large wild population of them, as they escaped from the Zoo\private owners in the past and have now introduced themselves into the local wildlife. I spent quite a lot of time this summer in parks watching them swimming along side regular ducks and other birds