been going for walks and seeing cool ducks

[Rhienfo]

I've been walking a lot more recently and Honestly the novelty has kinda worn off (which sounds weird but when you live in a surburb that's like 20 minutes to a bus line and not much in the area, seeing the same locations is kinda boring after a while) but I've been doing it to try and stay active and it helps me clear my mind from some of the stress that I have.

But while walking I see this type of duck that every-time I try and take a photo of them it always hides and I can't get a photo of them without stuff in the way. It's like blue, with a red beak and they look so cool. If they weren't wild animals I would love to have one as a pet, I know you can have ducks as pets cause I saw that one video of the pet duck that ran a marathon which was funny and cute.



This is the clearest image I have of it, I use my phone which doesn't have the best quality so it doesn't look the best but that's fine, It also doesn't look like it's got a head lol. Also the duck looks bluer in real life and I don't remember it being black and blue but I can't visualize things at all so I'm probably wrong



I had to zoom in to really see it. I swear this duck was standing on trimmed grass where you could see the whole thing, and the moment I went to pull out my phone to take a photo they jumped into the bush and I could only take this photo.

I will get an actually good photo of this type of duck (If they aren't camera shy which one of them was clearly). Also please walk if you don't. I understand America isn't the friendliest place for pedestrians where most of you are but It really helps you (or at least helped me) maybe go to a reserve of park and walk there. Put on a new album or a podcast or something as well, really makes walks more bearable if you doing the same walk everyday. Stay Healthy everyone

[tp4tissue]

Yes to ducks.

[iri]

Looks like a western swamphen, though I'm not sure what it would be doing in Australia.

[noisyturtle]

Red-headed Snickle****
type;waterfowl

[Leslieann]

Looks like a western swamphen, though I'm not sure what it would be doing in Australia.

Close.
It's a male Purple Swamphen

[iri]

lol

The purple swamphen has been split into the following species:[1][2][3]

    Western swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, southwest Europe and northwest Africa
    African swamphen, Porphyrio madagascariensis, sub-Saharan continental Africa and Madagascar
    Grey-headed swamphen, Porphyrio poliocephalus, Middle East, through the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand
    Black-backed swamphen, Porphyrio indicus, southeast Asia to Sulawesi
    Philippine swamphen, Porphyrio pulverulentus, Philippine islands
    Australasian swamphen, Porphyrio melanotus, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

I guess it's the last one.

[Rhienfo]

So I looked into it and yeah it probably is a swamphen and not a duck. I looked into them and found out that they hide from humans, which is probably why I couldn't get a clear photo of them. Looking back I thought the "duck" had really long legs but I didn't know what swamphens really were so I didn't think that it wasn't a duck. Cool Animals

[Leslieann]

With limited view I could easily see mistaking it for a duck, especially without knowing about them. Out of water I could even see mistaking it for a turkey or pheasant.

I found it by looking up "red beak duck Australia" so enough people think it's a duck to make search engines find it that way.

[mohawk1367]

The elites don't want you to know this) but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home.

The elites don't want you to know this) but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home.

The elites don't want you to know this) but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home.

[fohat.digs]

The elites

What is that?

And why would "they" care whether you take a wild creature home with you?

[mohawk1367]

The elites

What is that?

And why would "they" care whether you take a wild creature home with you?

I have 458 ducks

[Rhienfo]

Well I saw them again, don't know how I thought they were ducks. Manage to take a photo of them and not even close lol.





But I did see actual ducks. My phone died as I was taking another picture but they started to walk across the crossing together, very cute.

[iri]

Boring! Post exotic fauna!

[noisyturtle]

This is Frank. He sometimes goes by my bedroom window.
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[mohawk1367]

This is Frank. He sometimes goes by my bedroom window.

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the scrunkly  :)

[mohawk1367]

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is this a lynx loafing

[Rhienfo]

Boring! Post exotic fauna!

Not much exotic fauna where I live, mostly normal birds magpies and the ones I've shown. I do see some weird looking birds but not sure if they are common elsewhere, usually they fly really quickly and I have my phone in my pocket so when I see them and try and take a pic they usually are long gone.

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He seems chill, just protecting your house.

[Findecanor]

He seems chill, just protecting your house.

He rubber his chin against it: it is his now.

We get at least some fauna in my neighbourhood.
There was a beaver, for about a year. but it disappeared. I've seen a shy deer and an owl.
We used to have hares: now we have a fox.

[iri]

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Aww, a cute kitty!

[mohawk1367]

He seems chill, just protecting your house.

He rubber his chin against it: it is his now.

We get at least some fauna in my neighbourhood.
There was a beaver, for about a year. but it disappeared. I've seen a shy deer and an owl.
We used to have hares: now we have a fox.

in my area we got ravens, crows, geese, owls, rabbits, occasional fox and coyote, finches, toads, deer, and rarely a black bear will wander out into town