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Discussion

BLSHFour wrote:

Yesterday

There are other species in the image but the three birds in a row on the grass are the subject species

Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

WendyEM wrote:

3 Mar 2025

It so looked like a Muscovy - I had thought it was a young female and had not yet developed the bare facial skin bizzo. I am sure you are right Liam .

Anas platyrhynchos

kasiaaus wrote:

3 Mar 2025

How lovely Wendy. Sorry the fox got it in the end. This one looked very lonely.

Anas platyrhynchos

WendyEM wrote:

3 Mar 2025

I had a lovely pied one as a pet -inner urban Melbourne. She was left anonymously in a box in my front yard. She followed me about like a dog - very grumpy if I stood on her toes as she shadowed me. Survived one fox visit, not a second many years later.

Anas platyrhynchos

jb2602 wrote:

1 Mar 2025

male

Anarhynchus ruficapillus