Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) [XC597635]
by Marc Anderson from Paroo Darling National Park, New South Wales, Australia (flight call)
Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) [XC611324]
by Marc Anderson from Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Australia (call)
Nest
A rounded mass of down plucked from the breast of the parent birds and placed among grass of herbage growing near water, or on a deserted platform-shaped nest of another species.
Eggs (Guide)
5 - 8, usually 6 - 7; smooth and with greasy feeling, white or cream; oval, pointed at smaller end; about 49 x 36 mm. Incubation: about 28 days; by female.
Young
Precocial, nidifugous. Tended by both parents.
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