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  2. Mallard - Wikipedia

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    The female mallard is predominantly mottled, with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat, and neck, with a darker crown and eye-stripe.

  3. Plumage - Wikipedia

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    Mandarin duck (male) in eclipse plumage. Many male ducks have bright, colourful plumage, exhibiting strong sexual dimorphism. However, they moult into a dull plumage after breeding in mid-summer. This drab, female-like appearance is called eclipse plumage. When they shed feathers to go into an eclipse, the ducks become flightless for a short ...

  4. Duck - Wikipedia

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    A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage [1] or baby duck, [2] but in the food trade a young domestic duck which has just reached adult size and bulk and its meat is still fully tender, is sometimes labelled as a duckling. A male is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen. [3] [4] Male mallard. Wood ducks.

  5. Paradise shelduck - Wikipedia

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    The paradise shelduck is a colourful, large-bodied species of duck that differs in features depending on the sex. [11] Both females and males have chestnut-colour undertails, primarily black wing feathers with green secondary wing feathers, and upper wing surface feathers that are white. [11] They have black legs and webbed feet for swimming. [12]

  6. Anatidae - Wikipedia

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    Their feathers are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. Many of the ducks display sexual dimorphism, with the males being more brightly coloured than the females (although the situation is reversed in species such as the paradise shelduck). The swans, geese, and whistling-ducks lack sexually dimorphic plumage.

  7. Goose - Wikipedia

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    The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.

  8. The 20 Best Camel Coats for Women Are Forever Classics - AOL

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    Wool Hooded Coat. Max Mara’s mastery of camel coats was revealed in 1981, with designer Anne-Marie Beretta’s first sketch for the oversize wrap coat known as the “101801.”

  9. Anhinga - Wikipedia

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    The back of the head and the neck have elongated feathers that have been described as gray [16] or light purple-white. [14] The upper back of the body and wings are spotted or streaked with white. [16] The female anhinga is similar to the male except for its pale gray-buff [17] or light brown [18] head, neck, and upper chest. The lower chest or ...