A Hybrid Duck Species


Image by Maxwell Hamilton
This is a Tufted Duck and Red Crested Pochard hybrid duck species.
Tufted Duck link www.flickr.com/photos/mualphachi/4399303004/in/set-721576…

Red Crested Pochard link www.flickr.com/photos/mualphachi/5149450644/in/set-721576…

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HAWAIIAN GEESE “NENE”

Here is a beautiful wooden storyboard, hand carved and hand painted featuring a Hawaiian geese “Nene”, primitive art.

Artist: signed by Kealoha Keni
Specification:

- The relief measures 30″ X 13″ X 1″ (75cm X 35 cm X 3 cm).

- Wood: hand carved and hand painted

Great Hawaiian decor!
Kealoha is a Polynesian master wood carver specialized in Tiki carvings and polynesian art, environmental artist and educator. He is internationally

List Price: $ 165.00

Price: $ 99.95

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Geese Walking on Ice, Kew Gardens, London.


Image by Jim Linwood
The Bar-headed Goose (rear) is a very attractive species. Both sexes share the twin-barring on the head. The rest of the head is white with a streak running down the sides of the neck. The back of the neck is dark gray to black, rest of the body gray overall. To insure you have a pair, you may need to vent sex. Immature geese are somewhat paler and lack the bars on the head.

The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) (front left) is a species of goose. It breeds around the Bering Sea, mostly in Alaska, USA, but also in Kamchatka, Russia. It is migratory, wintering mainly in the Aleutian Islands.

The Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) (front right) is a goose species closely related to the smaller Lesser White-fronted Goose (A. erythropus).

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Released back in 1996 on “Arcane Records” Tracks produced by “Vesuvio” and “Mr. Zinn”……cheers!

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“I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness.. what has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.. It is good to know our universe.. what is new is only new to us”..The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)


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Captured AS SEEN MY WAY… The reflections of course always catches my eye.. the lighting kept changing.. the splendid natural colours and odd shadow on the water and the shimmering lighting as the goose swims by…

The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a wild goose belonging to the genus Branta, which is native to Arctic and temperate regions of North America, having a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brownish-gray body. It is often called the Canadian Goose, but that name is not the ornithological standard, or the most common name.The black head and neck with white "chinstrap" distinguish the Canada Goose from all other goose species, with the exception of the Barnacle Goose, but the latter has a black breast, and also grey, rather than brownish, body plumage. There are seven subspecies of this bird, of varying sizes and plumage details, but all are recognizable as Canada Geese. Some of the smaller races can be hard to distinguish from the newly-separated Cackling Goose.
This species is 76–110 cm (30–43 in) long with a 127–180 cm (50–71 in) wingspan. The male usually weighs 3.2–6.5 kg, (7–14 pounds), and can be very aggressive in defending territory. The female looks virtually identical but is slightly lighter at 2.5–5.5 kg (5.5–12 pounds), generally 10% smaller than its male counterpart, and has a different honk. An exceptionally large male of the race B. c. maxima, the "giant Canada goose" (which rarely exceed 8 kg/18 lb), weighed 10.9 kg (24 pounds) and had a wingspan of 2.24 m (88 inches). This specimen is the largest wild goose ever recorded of any species. The life span in the wild is 10–24 years.
During the second year of their lives, Canada Geese find a mate. They are monogamous, and most couples stay together all of their lives If one is killed, the other may find a new mate. The female lays 3–8 eggs and both parents protect the nest while the eggs incubate, but the female spends more time at the nest than the male.
Adult geese are often seen leading their goslings in a line, usually with one parent at the front, and the other at the back. While protecting their goslings, parents often violently chase away nearby creatures, from small blackbirds to humans that approach, after warning them by giving off a hissing sound. Most of the species that prey on eggs will also take a gosling. Although parents are hostile to unfamiliar geese, they may form groups of a number of goslings and a few adults, called crèches. The offspring enter the fledging stage any time from 6 to 9 weeks of age. They do not leave their parents until after the spring migration, when they return to their birthplace. Once they reach adulthood, Canada Geese are rarely preyed on, but (beyond humans) can be taken by Coyotes, Red Foxes, Gray Wolves, Snowy Owls, Great Horned Owls, Golden Eagles and, most often, Bald Eagles.

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Greylag Goose (Anser anser)


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The most commonly seen Goose in Sweden.

We have many goose species in Sweden that is breding or just passing by to their sommer lookations, but i only saw this specie at Hornborjasjön.
Their were probroly others but i dident spot them in the crowd of birds.

And it can be a bit hard to spot 1 diffrent specie in a group of Greylag Gooses without a good spotting scope/monocular.

The Bean Goose for exampel is quit simular to the Greylag Goose.

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“Ey up mi duck..Aya gorra weeya?..It’s black uvver Bill’s mother’s..Nesh..Who’s mashing?..Thiz summat up wee im ..Gorra bag on..


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Captured AS SEEN MY WAY… Just the colours lighting and the reflections caught my eye espesially the yellow beak on the male…

Ey up mi duck" is a popular greeting in the East Midlands. But talking to native East Midlanders in their distinctive dialect can be a mesmerising experience for outsiders.
It’s often hard to pick up the twang in the voice or that strange turn of phrase.
But the East Midlands takes great pride in its distinctive dialect as Inside Out finds out on a linguistic tour of the region.
Ey up mi duck!
The East Midlands is renowned for its distinctive dialects from the Derbyshire drawl to Nottingham’s no-nonsense style of talking.
East Midlands Dialect
Test your knowledge of Midlands dialect:

Ay (or ey) up mi duck – hello there!
Aya gorra weeya? – is the wife with you?
It’s black uvver Bill’s mother’s – it looks like rain

Coggie – swimming costume
Croaker – doctor
Duck’s necks – bottle of lemonade

Gorra bag on – in a bad mood
Laropped – drunk
Nesh – cold
Old cock – friend or mate
Page owl – single woman out alone at night
Skants – pants
The rally – the railway line
Thiz summat up wee im – I think he may be ill
Who’s mashing? – who’s making the cups of tea

Despite the fading of old traditions and huge shifts in how we communicate globally, it appears that dialect and accents are still going strong in the East Midlands.
Much of the dialect developed in rural communities and in the industrial heartlands of the region.
Mining communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire were renowned for their use of dialect.
At a time when regions are losing some of their traditional dialect, the East Midlands is keen to retain its cultural identity and linguistic style.
Although some words are dying out, East Midlanders are keen to celebrate their local language.

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.
The word duck comes from Old English *d?ce, a derivative of the verb *d?can "to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen "to dive".This word replaced Old English æned "duck", favored by æned presumably developing into a homophone of the outcome of Old English ende "end". Other Germanic languages still have similar words for "duck", for example, Dutch eend "duck" and German Ente "duck". The word æned was inherited from Proto-Indo-European; compare: Latin anas "duck", Lithuanian ántis "duck", Ancient Greek n?ssa/n?tta (?????, ?????) "duck", and Sanskrit ?tí "water bird", among others.Some people use "duck" specifically for adult females and "drake" for adult males, for the species described here; others use "hen" and "drake", respectively.A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage or baby duck. but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled "duckling".The overall body plan of ducks is elongated and broad, and the ducks are also relatively long-necked, albeit not as long-necked as the geese and swans. The body shape of diving ducks varies somewhat from this in being more rounded. The bill is usually broad and contains serrated lamellae which are particularly well defined in the filter-feeding species. In the case of some fishing species the bill is long and strongly serrated. The scaled legs are strong and well developed, and generally set far back on the body, more so in the highly aquatic species. The wings are very strong and are generally short and pointed, and the flight of ducks requires fast continuous strokes, requiring in turn strong wing muscles. Three species of steamer duck are almost flightless, however. Many species of duck are temporarily flightless while moulting; they seek out protected habitat with good food supplies during this period. This moult typically precedes migration.The drakes of northern species often have extravagant plumage, but that is moulted in summer to give a more female-like appearance, the "eclipse" plumage. Southern resident species typically show less sexual dimorphism, although there are exceptions like the Paradise Shelduck of New Zealand which is both strikingly sexually dimorphic and where the female’s plumage is brighter than that of the male. The plumage of juvenile birds generally resembles that of the female.

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4 Species of Duck


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That pink object is an upside down colour changing duck! When it cools down, it is purple.

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