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Some birds spotted this morning on campus. A female Australian Wood Duck, pausing mid-preen for a photo; and two Little Corellas on a rock grabbing a drink from the lake.

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The head, neck and upper part of an Australian Wood duck framed in the lower right of the photo, with smooth bokeh taking up the rest of the frame in shades of brown and olive.
The duck is a female and has the lighter brown head characteristic of that sex. She has a pretty mottled brown and white neck, sitting in an S curve. The sub is from the left of frame and slightly behind the bird, highlighting the feather texture.

Two white, large parrots (small cockatoos) - Little Corellas to be precise, sitting on a rock surrounded by water that is blue from the reflection of the sky.
The further one has its head tilted back swallowing, while the foreground one has its beak in the water.

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🌏 Australian wood duck (Chenonetta jubata) ♀

The Australian wood duck, maned duck, or maned goose is a medium-sized duck resembling a small goose. Females have brown heads with distinct white stripes above and below their eyes, and mottled underparts. Males feature a dark brown head with a small mane, a grey body, and a mottled breast. They are widely distributed across mainland Australia, favouring grasslands, woodlands, and shallow wetlands. Unlike many ducks, they primarily graze on land, often in flocks, and are frequently seen perching in trees. Their calls include croaky "gnow" sounds, with females having a louder, rising call.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

📷: Photo by pen_ash via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/australian-wood-duck-duck-wood-duck-8826649/

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Today's campus birds started with a small group of three Bush Stone-curlews this morning, and then a family of ducks, some swamphen chicks and a Noisy Miner this afternoon.

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Three Bush Stone-Curlews in the morning sun in a garden under some large fig trees.
One (left) is standing on its tall legs, while the other two are resting on the ground amongst the leaves.

A family of wood ducks on a concrete path. The father is at the rear, keeping watch in that direction, the mother on the right front, watching me, and four ducklings are huddled together in the middle having a snooze.

A tiny black fluffy chick with enormous feet, stands on a lawn.
It is the chick of an AustralasianSwamphen.

A Noisy Miner (a grey honeyeater bird) perched on the branch of a banksia bush. Two banksia cones can be seen behind it. Its body is turned away from the camera, but its head is turned back around to look at the camera. The background is green and out-of-focus.

Either this family of Australian Wood Ducks had a late hatching, or have adopted a lost duckling, as one of the brood is a few weeks younger than the rest.

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A family of Australian Wood ducks on some lawn next to a road. There is a pair of adults, three older ducklings losing their down, and one tiny downy duckling.

Teenage Ducklings. One in the foreground in focus facing right, one behind, mostly hidden, and one on the right in the background with its butt facing the camera.

One tiny duckling covered in down. It has a piece of grass in its beak like a fat green cigar.

On the way to the carpark after work yesterday, I found a little family of ducklings.

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A pair of very fluffy wood duck ducklings on mown grass. Both are facing right, walking, with heads down as they graze.

A single duckling standing upright facing the camera. It has its head turned slightly to the left and its beak open.
There's a Corella feather on the ground behind it and to the left.
The duckling has a dark brown cap, and burglar mask, white body and pale brown wings and back.

Two ducklings walking from right to left. The lead one has its beak open.

🌏 Australian wood duck (Chenonetta jubata) #Australianbirds | #AustralianWoodDuck #ManedDuck #ManedGoose #WoodDucks #DabblingDucks #Ducks #Waterfowl | #birds🦜 #birdsoftheworld

📷: Australian wood duck, Maned duck or Maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) by pen_ash via Pixabay 2021

The photo shows a large duck with a goose-like appearance. Males (Pictured) have a dark brown head with a small mane, a speckled brown-grey breast, and a black lower belly and undertail. Females have a paler head with white stripes above and below the eyes, a speckled breast and flanks, and a white lower belly and undertail. Both sexes have grey wings with black primaries and a white speculum.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Distribution: Widespread in Australia, including Tasmania.

Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Anseriformes (Waterfowl)
Family: Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Swans)
Genus: Chenonetta
Species: C. jubata

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I found the lone duckling this afternoon happily feeding on the lake with its parents.

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A week old wood duck duckling swimming on the lake with its father feeding behind.

A week old Australian Wood Duck duckling swimming amongst the duckweed. Its parents swim and feed behind.

When I left work for the day, I came across a single, late-season duckling and its two attentive parents.

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A tiny Australian Wood Duck duckling and its two parents swimming through some duckweed/algae in the wetlands at work.

A tiny Australian Wood Duck duckling and its mother swimming through some duckweed/algae in the wetlands at work.

This morning, we visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Hobart, and there were several clutches of ducklings!

A couple of Pacific Black Ducks and about three sets of Australian Wood Ducks.

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A Pacific Black Duck, duckling. It has a yellow face, but is otherwise brown and lighter brown. It is walking over a lawn, there are out of focus white flowers behind, and is probably about a week old.

This Pacific Black Duck duckling was the only one in the clutch that was completely yellow. It is essentially the quintessential yellow rubber duck, but for real.

A Pacific Black Duck duckling, standing on the grass. Part of Mum can be seen behind. There are tiny white flowers in the lawn at its feet. The ducking has a yellow dace, but is otherwise brown and lighter brown, and about a week old.

Two Australian Wood duck ducklings swimming in a pond. They are brown, with white fices and brown stripe through the eye.

A small Australian Wood Duck, duckling, stops for a scratch

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You're not sick of these yet are you?

Yes more duckling photos.

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A duckling standing on one foot, while the other scratches and itch under its chin.

A duckling pokes its head up from the grass to look at the odd photographer. It is facing right, peering at the camera with its right eye.

A duckling on short grass walking towards the camera.

A duckling in longer grass (well, long for a duckling anyway), mostly facing the camera and looking absolutely adorable.

It was quite foggy this morning, but that didn't stop me finding the brood of 9 #ducklings at work this morning.
The parents were carefully standing guard and herding them all around as needed.
Definitely worth having dirty knees and elbows for the rest of the day.

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Four ducklings grazing on grass, three out of focus, and one standing up in sharp focus.
These ducklings are brown backed with downy browny white chest and bellow, white patches on the wings and dark brown caps with a bandit mask also in dark brown.

A pile of three ducklings. One, standing upright on the left of frame collides with another walking directly towards the camera, while a third grazes peacefully behind on the right.
The centre duckling has a damaged left eye (right side in the photo).

A fully round duckling bends over to munch on some weed growing amongst the lawn.

Papa duck stands tall and alert as he surveys the area for threats while also watching his brood arrayed around him.

Leaving work this evening, I found another family of ducklings. Nine in this brood and they were motoring along at quite a pace heading for the new wetlands where the main lake used to be at UQ.

Too fast to get some nice duckling portraits, so these are all "run and gun" as they whizzed past.

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A 3:1 ratio shot of 7.5 ducklings walking very quickly across a road.

Nine ducklings with the two parent ducks in the late afternoon sunlight walking rapidly left to right. The ducklings are all brown with white patches and little dark brown masks.

Seven of the ducklings racing along towards the right of frame and partially towards the camera. The parents walk with them, but I couldn't get them all in so their heads aren't in the shot.

I spotted the ducklings again this morning, so of course had to go take photos in the morning light.

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A brown and white duckling standing up with its beak open and looking absolutely adorable.

A round brown and white duckling on grass, head turned slightly towards the camera, but intently looking down for its next grassy target.

A brown and white duckling walking left to right on grass.

A brown and white duckling body facing left, head turned and tilted to eat some grass seeds.

I found ducklings!

Spotted as I was leaving work this arvo, so I pulled over, wound down the window and fired off a few frames from the car.

Also, bonus Duck Butt!

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The very fuzzy butt of an Australian Wood Duck duckling.

It is a little ball of brown and white downy feathers in the green grass.

Australian Wood Duck Duckling, feeding on grass and grass seeds. It is mostly brown with white patches and has a cute little black mask.

Five of the six ducklings in this brood, feeding with their mother (the drake was also there, but isn't pictured).

The ducklings have grown. Still fluffy, but not quite as much.

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More #AustralianWoodDuck ducklings :)

And a Tawny Frogmouth, still waiting for the eggs to hatch.

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Are you ready for some Duckling spam? 'cause I came across 7 Australian Wood Duck ducklings this morning, and their attentive parents.

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These teenage ducklings haven't got the memo about Social Distancing. (probably because they can't read).

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