Mallard Drake (Anas platyrhynchos).

How many colours do you count in this 'drab' duck?

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Male Drake (Anas platyrhynchos) touching down

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Slobeend ♂ - male Northern Shovel(l)er (Spatula clypeata)

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Grote Zaagbek ♂ - male Goosander or Common Merganser (Mergus Merganser).

3200 iso, it might just as well have been night )-:

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Mandarijneend - Asian Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata).

Feral, escapee very likely.
There was a female too.
I had never seen one near Groningen before.

#Leekstermeer.

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