Tuesday, November 25, 2014

FRECKLED DUCK

Photographed at Forbes, NSW, October 2014
408          FRECKLED DUCK          Stictonetta naevosa

Australia          (282)

Also known as Monkey Duck. 48-59 cm. Found in large well-vegetated swamps, in dry periods moves to open lakes. Ranges across sw WA and se quarter of mainland Australia. Rare, irruptive, nomadic.
















Female, photographed near Werribee, Victoria February 2015

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