Knob-billed Ducks

[AGeese]

Knob-billed Ducks anyone?

 

[GodLovesU]

That doesn’t even look real!

 

[AGeese]

That doesn’t even look real!

I know right!?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-billed_duck

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Knob-billed_Ducks_and_Rock_Doves

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...oyal_Museum_for_Central_Africa_-_DSC06799.JPG

 

[Miss Lydia]

The one with the knob kinda looks like some of my ducks after they have been shoveling a ton of mud on top of their bills. That is very strange looking.

 

[AGeese]

Knob-billed Duck, Chilika, Odisha, India
AjitK332, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 

[Miss Lydia]

Knob-billed Duck, Chilika, Odisha, India
AjitK332, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

That is beautiful

 

[AGeese]

Yes not sure if that's iridescence on the wings?

 

[Luv Ducks]

Knob-billed Ducks anyone?

I have never even heard of them before!!! They sure are pretty. Where are they from???

 

[AGeese]

I have never even heard of them before!!! They sure are pretty. Where are they from???

Sarkidiornis melanotos distribution
Viktor Kravtchenko, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons