"So do you ever engage in surface feeding"
"Oh I dabble"
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"So do you ever engage in surface feeding"
"Oh I dabble"
Mallard - Pato-real (Anas platyrhynchos): males
Cruz Quebrada/Portugal (24/12/2025)
[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR]
Fulvous Whistling Duck @ WWT London by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck is a species of whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern United States, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent
What is a ducks favorite ballet?
The Nutquacker 🤭
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
If you hear a duck calling, there’s a good chance it’s a female mallard. They have a much louder and more distinctive call than males; their quack is even used in films and tv shows as a stock sound. In the wild it’s used as a hailing call to gather the female’s young or other members of the flock.
(Image: A female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) by Daniel Moskowitz)
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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:
Possible gadwall. I’m not sure. It’s a green-winged teal.
A little Blue-winged Teal making a surprise appearance on my walk today, these little guys aren’t that common out where I am so seeing one is kind of a treat