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Chiloé wigeon @ London Wetlands WWT by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Chiloé wigeon, also known as the southern wigeon, is one of three extant species of wigeon in the genus Mareca of the dabbling duck subfamily. This bird is indigenous to the southern part of South America, including the Chiloé Archipelago, from which it gets its name

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A Dabbler’s Feathursday

A couple of weeks ago we brought a few of the diving ducks that we often see here in Wisconsin. This week we present a few of the Anatinae or dabbling ducks that are common to our neck of the woods, marshes, rivers, and lakes. Dabblers are ducks that dip their heads and front parts of their body under the water to access food near the surface. This is opposed to divers that will submerge their whole body and dive for food. Once again, our examples come from Rex Brasher’s massive, limited-edition, 12-volume set Birds and Trees of North America, self-published in Kent, Connecticut, between 1929 and 1932, containing thousands of hand-colored reproductions of Brasher’s paintings!

From top to bottom, they are:

1.) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), two details and full print: Perhaps our most common North American duck, Mallards are aptly described by Rex Brasher as "The tamest, hardiest, most social and important Duck in the world -- a full biography in one sentence. Mallards will eat nearly every kind of food. . . . Courageous, self-reliant and altogether capable . . . not the least of their virtues is that they eat mosquito larva -- May their tribe never decrease!” 2.) Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors), detail and full print: One of the smaller dabblers, Blue-winged Teals of both sexes are distinguished by their sky-blue wing coverts. They are among our favorites to see at Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh. 3.) Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata), two details and full print: These fellows are unmistakable due to their large spatulate bill, equipped with well-developed lamellae – small, comb-like structures on the edge of the bill that act like sieves as the bird swings its bill from side to side to strain food from the water. 4.) Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), full print and detail: Wood Ducks are Wisconsin’s most colorful waterfowl species. The drake is decorated with green, blue, red, purple, white, and orange hues. Aptly named, the Wood Duck has specialized foot adaptations for perching and they are are “cavity” nesters, preferring to nest in tree cavities left by tree disease, rot, squirrels, etc.

Find out more about Rex Brasher’s work, and/or view other posts from this set.

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Chiloé wigeon @ London Wetlands WWT by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Chiloé wigeon, also known as the southern wigeon, is one of three extant species of wigeon in the genus Mareca of the dabbling duck subfamily. This bird is indigenous to the southern part of South America, including the Chiloé Archipelago, from which it gets its name

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Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. article: Practical Low-Waste Food Tips (Julia Skinner/Root) article: Divers and Dabblers (Mary Holland/Naturally Curious). How to spot diving ducks (Canvasback, Redhead, Scaups, Ring-necked Duck) and dabbling ducks (Mallard, Mottled Duck, American…

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I am really angry right now. Not only that but I'm super offended. So I was doing some research on stuff that I won't specify and do you know what comes up. A wattpad link. And do you know what that wattpad link was. "Real magic spells." Curiosity, of course go the better of me so I clicked on the link. I read the description and for a second I thought this person may actually know what they're talking about. Is that the case? Of course not. I click on the story itself and I read the first one like this sounds fake but okay and then I keep scrolling. Do you know what kind of fucking spells they had on there? Fucking animal transformation spells and spells to turn into mythical creatures and ding ding ding here's what really got me. A fucking immortality spell. YOU CANT FUCKING DO THIS SHIT. I could tell right there that these people were total dabblers. For those of you who don't know wha a dabbled is, it's a person who reads shit online about magic or reads one book and thinks they're this really great and powerful witch. Now I'm over here, me being a pagan and AN ACTUAL FUCKING WITCH really offended that someone would do something like that. And it was even worse when I found that this person wasn't the only one. There were others. You can't post something like magic online. And I am certain they found those spells online. You know they aren't real when the use online spells because that's either extremely dangerous because for all they know it's black magic no matter what they say or it's just not real. There's no such thing as a spell to turn you into a wolf or a vampire or immortal that's actually real. I'm super fucking offended that there are people out there that think that fooling people like this is ok. That think that putting something as dangerous as magic online for everyone to see on something like fucking wattpad. I just want to warn all of you out there right now: NEVER TRUST ONLINE SPELLS they are extremely dangerous and you can't mess with something so delicate so please please please watch out. And if you are one of those people who put magic online, take it down. Shame on you. It's just as dangerous for you to do that shot as it is for the people who think it's real. You may think it's real but it's not so stop your bullshit and actually learn about what it means to be a witch. And none of that Wiccan bullshit. They all might as well be dabblers cause I've never even heard of someone claiming to be a Wiccan that didn't do what only dabblers would ever do. I really hope for all your sakes that you take whichever warning that applies to you and actually listen to it.