Birds Amazing Mandarin Duck

[RogerSmith]

I know in Sand Diego CA this was probably an escaped pet, but it was living happily in the wild and seemed to have a female wood duck girlfriend. What a lovely bird

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 400

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Here in the UK they were always collection birds, but have long since established themselves in the wild. Not in their thousands, but there are places in most counties in the Southern half of England that have them. They are beautiful ducks indeed.