Duck Preening
by Linda Brody
Title
Duck Preening
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Duck Preening. This female Mallard has just gotten out of the lily pond and is drying in the bright sun... he is preening: To straighten and clean its feathers with its beak. -- clean, tidy, groom, smooth, arrange. This photo was taken at a commercial office complex that features a lily pond in Orange, California.
The mallard or wild duck is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
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July 6th, 2018
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