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Spot-billed duck

Anas poecilorhyncha

Description:

This duck is around the same size as a mallard and has a scaly patterned body with a green speculum and a band of white tertials that is prominent in flight. At rest the white stripe stands out and the long neck and the bill with yellow tip and orange red spots at the base are distinctive in the nominate subspecies.

Habitat:

NIT Lake ,inside NIT Trichy campus, Tamilnadu.

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Nidhin Basheer
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Nidhin Basheer

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Nov 11, 2016
Submitted on Nov 11, 2016

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