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Pacific Black Duck

Anas superciliosa

Notes:

A Pacific black duck with a vividly-coloured patch in the secondary flight feathers. This patch looks green or purple depending on the angle (see shot 4 for the purple look)!

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9 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Very nice color,

The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

Nice! I love the effect of the duckie just landing in the water in pic 3

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 11 years ago

The third shot is so cool, I love the perfect little "sploosh" :D Great animal, these ducks are gorgeous. What a lovely spotting :)

Atul
Atul 11 years ago

lovely !

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Lovely series :)

ShannaB
ShannaB 11 years ago

Ashish - I think he was a bit of a show-off! : )

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

In 5th shot..he looks very cute...

ShannaB
ShannaB 11 years ago

Thanks Nuwan! I like the 'action shot' (the third one). : )

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

nice series!

ShannaB
Spotted by
ShannaB

4455, Queensland, Australia

Spotted on Apr 27, 2012
Submitted on May 21, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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