Pink-eared Duck

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Braeside Park, Melbourne, SC Vic IMG_2873 20230422 - adult. CLICK for another: 20230422.

Notes: Small duck w. huge square-tipped shovel-shaped grey bill & strongly barred
brown flanks. A small pink patch behind the eye. Juvenile paler, grey-brown barring,
pink often absent. Typically feeds by swimming in tight circles, concentrating food
in a water gyre. Widely distributed inland Aust waterbird. Highly nomadic.

Range from eBird^©(last 10 years)

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, SC Vic IMG_4267 20200102

Braeside Park, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_4155 20220423

On Birdsville Trak, NE SA IMG_0057 20241002 - CLICK for pair on Broome Sewage Works, NW WA 20180912

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, SC Vic IMG_2650 20171127

Great Norther Highway, Pardoo, NW WA IMG_4185 20180922 - w. Plumed Whistling Ducks, Pied Stilts

Cameron's Corner, NE SA IMG_8927 20170529 - juvenile

Braeside Park, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_9674 20211205 - adult w. 5 chicks. CLICK for procession.

Braeside Park, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_4138 20220423 - Five months later: adults and perhaps 7 juveniles!

Hasties Swamp NP, FN Qld MVI_5879+5880 20170823 - filter feeding, concentrating prey in gyre.

Jandowae Dam, SE Qld MVI_5522 20151118 - filter feeding, alternative technique.