What duck is this?

Can anyone enlighten me please?

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I'm no duck expert but i'd have a stab at mandarin

 

Mandarin duck - the only one I can identify.
well that and the Falkland Island Flightless Steamer Duck . Only two I can remember from a trip to Martin Mere a few years ago .

 

Excellent!! Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Iv'e never seen one before but spotted it locally this morning.

 

Nice male Mandarin, the drab female is also to the left, they breed here but only in very small numbers around the UK, they and the also exotic looking Carolina wood Duck are commonly seen in wildfowl collections.

 

Thank duck for that

 

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and has a funky hairdo, it's a mandarin drake.

 

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