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Wood duck (Aix sponsa)

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Wood duck (Aix sponsa)

English, Dutch and scientific names.
Species/Soort Family/Familie Order/Orde Class/Klasse Phylum/Stam Kingdom/Rijk
Wood duck Ducks, geese and swans Duck, geese, and relatives Birds Chordate Animals
Carolina-eend Zwanen, ganzen en eenden Eendvogels Vogels Gewervelden Dieren
Aix sponsa Anatidae Anseriformes Aves Chordata Animalia

East Landmark Place (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

2023:03:27 09:31:37
Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
OM-1 with OLYMPUS M.300mm F4.0, 1/2000 sec at F6.3, ISO 6400, distance 6.345 m

Hobby kweker aan de Onderweg (Pijnacker-Nootdorp, South Holland, Netherlands)

2021:02:27 16:00:03
Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
NIKON D500 with AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR, 1/500 sec at F6.3, ISO 200, distance 16.79 m

This duck lives in the collection of a hobby grower at Berkel.

Hobby kweker aan de Onderweg (Pijnacker-Nootdorp, South Holland, Netherlands)

2021:02:24 16:16:49
Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
NIKON D500 with AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR, 1/1250 sec at F5.0, ISO 400, distance 7.94 m

This duck lives in the collection of a hobby grower at Berkel.

Floyd Lamb Park, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)

2014:12:06 19:08:16
Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
NIKON D7100 with AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED VR II, 1/400 sec at F5.0, ISO 500, distance 5.62 m

The Carolina duck is usually difficult to photograph, but this specimen just came with the other ducks to beg bread.

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