Bath time (51324420912)

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Summary[edit] Description: Decided to put together a triptych of this NZ native scaup having a bath.. New Zealand scaup (also called Black Teal) are gregarious diving ducks common throughout New Zealand. Compact and blackish, they have the silhouette of a bath-toy duck. New Zealand scaup are quite unlike any other resident duck species. Dark and squat with a rounded profile, they often occur in large flocks, floating with cork-like buoyancy. Scaup are diving ducks and spend a lot of time underwater, where they can travel considerable distances. Both sexes are dark-plumaged, but are easily distinguished. The male has dark black-brown plumage with iridescent blue-green head and wings, and lighter mottling on the chest and underparts. His iris is yellow and bill blue-grey. The female is a duller chocolate brown, paler on her underparts. Her iris is brown and bill grey, normally with a ring of white feathers at the base. nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/new-zealand-scaup. Date: 20 July 2021, 09:38. Source: Bath time. Author: Geoff McKay from Palmerston North, New Zealand.