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duck

common ducks

Habitat:

lake at the grange

5 Comments

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 9 years ago

Audubon have a lab especially for splittng

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

Yea they used to all be moorhens, but a few years ago they split the new world one out into the gallinule. They look exactly the same though!

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 9 years ago

Apologies Ashley yoy are right, in England They are called Moorhen

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

The bird in the back is not a coot, it is a common gallinule (Gallinula galeata)

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 9 years ago

These are Mallards.(Anas platyrhynchos.) Two males one female.
Coot (Fulica atra) in the background

BethDuda
Spotted by
BethDuda

Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom

Spotted on Mar 1, 2015
Submitted on Mar 1, 2015

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