A brown female Mallard duck sleeping while standing on the grass next to a lake

A brown female Mallard duck with its head turned towards the right side of the screen while standing in shallow water. A male Mallard duck is off to the back on the left

A Mute swan floating in water with some greens in its beak

A white goose sitting on dirt next to a tree

Happy late #WorldWaterfowlDay! I love ducks, geese, swans, coots, and all the waterfowl of the world so much 🥺 they're just living their lives floating on the ponds and rivers...

I take many, many waterfowl photos! Here's a few of my favorites!

#birds #loogiphotos

Photo of the painting in gold frame on white wall on display at museum - round composition

label: Swan (with Rainbow), ca. 1924 Oil on canvas Collection of C. K. Williams II The swan-often associated with the Greek god Zeus and the form he took in his passionate pursuit of Leda in classical mythology-conjures notions of sensuality, beauty, purity, and power. The animal appears as detail in several of Stella's works inspired by Italy. Yet in this monumental presentation, the bird takes center stage, filling the composition. With its round format, common among religious paintings of the Renaissance, Swan assumes near spiritual status. Stella kept the painting in his studio collection but exhibited it prominently in the window at a 1938 exhibition in Newark, New Jersey (see photo below). Stella's Swan (with Rainbow) is shown here in the window of The Cooperative Gallery, 120 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey, January 1938, with gallery proprietors Nathan Krueger and Bernard Rabin. Photo courtesy of Michelle Rabin.

For #WorldWaterfowlDay 🦆🪿🦢:
A favorite piece from the 2023
"Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature" exhibition at Brandywine Museum.
Camera images do not adequately capture how luminous it is in person.
Joseph Stella (1877-1946)
#Swan (with Rainbow), c. 1924
Oil on canvas
#BirdsInArt

color woodblock print of a pair of Mandarin Ducks swimming together in water w/artist's stamp in red on lower right

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Kawano Kaoru (Japan, 1916-65)
Quiet Couple (Oshidori), c.1950s
Woodblock print
🆔 Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata), symbols of fidelity & marital bliss across East Asian cultures due to an old belief that they mate for life. (They usually don't though. Sorry!)
#JapaneseArt

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This #WorldWaterfowlDay, we’re celebrating the winged wonders of Forest Aviary—birds that swim, whistle, and waddle their way into our hearts.

Stop by Forest Aviary to meet them up close and chat with our knowledgeable staff and volunteers about these water-loving birds.

A small cluster of Northern pintails (drakes & hens present) in the wetland roost pond at the Bosque del Apache NWR

A small flight of Gadwalls (drakes & hens present) with some mountains behind them at the Bosque del Apache NWR

A single northern shoveler drake glides across the water

Snow geese at the dawn flyout. Some birds are taking off while others are waiting their turn in the water. The sun is behind the birds giving off a very golden hue to the scene

Today is #WorldWaterfowlDay! Here's a few such birds seen during my last trip to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.

#worldwaterfowlday #ducks #birds we must celebrate this day and protect the wetlands. Use our voices bc the birds can't get lawyers to protect their land and water. #protectnature #protectwildlife
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Make a splash! 🦆🦢 Tag a nature lover who enjoys watching the wildlife waddle and swim! 👇

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#WorldWaterfowlDay #NationalDayCalendar #CelebrateEveryDay

#worldwaterfowlday #ducks #photography

"Even when forced copulation occurs, females retain extraordinary agency over which male actually fertilize their eggs... [Mate] was born from the dissonance between what we’re taught about nature and what the science actually shows when we bother to look at females." #worldwaterfowlday

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Taken January 17th on World Waterfowl Day!

Long tailed ducks.

#birds, #worldwaterfowlday , #longtailedduck , #longtailedducks , #urbanbirding , #ontario_birding_ , #getoutside

Jan 17: World Waterfowl Day, Classy Day, Popeye Day, Bootleggers Day, Hot Buttered Rum Day. Celebrate wildlife & classic culture! #WorldWaterfowlDay https://fefd.link/PZvgj

Two mottled pale colored ducks mating, with the male on top having a corkscrew shaped penis. Photo by: Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: While most birds have cloacas, almost all male waterfowl have penises.

🦆🦢🪿 #WorldWaterfowlDay was on Friday!
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🧠 Learn more: https://www.waterfowlday.org

Official museum photo, side profile view on white background Blackware ceramic single spout stirrup effigy vessel in the form of a warrior duck VEX.2024.3.15 Info via Getty Museum: “Here's what we know about it: 🔘 The bird holds a mace in one hand and a square shield in the other-typical arms and armor for Moche warriors. 🔘 Warrior ducks are among the many hybrid beings that can be seen in Moche art, but this creature is special. 🔘 The duck’s eyes are made of white shell and black stone, and mother-of-pearl inlays are on the wings, face, and shield—this is not your average pottery vessel. 🔘 Other finds in the burial, such as a gilded-copper lime container and copper adornments for clothing, suggest the deceased male was a significant figure, perhaps a priest. 🔘 The warrior duck vessel was found in fragments. We don’t know whether it contained anything. It may have been made for the burial, a prestigious offering that conveyed the dead man’s power and status.”

#WorldWaterfowlDay:
Vessel in the Form of a Warrior #Duck
Moche, Peru 500-650CE
Terracotta w/ mother of pearl, shell, & stone inlays
Museo Arqueológico "Santiago Uceda Castillo." Ministry of Culture of Peru
🆔 That distinctive beak shape suggests one of the Spatula genus gang (aka shovelers & teals)!

A few more for #worldwaterfowlday Bufflehead, Swan Geese & female Argentine Ruddy Duck. I’m the fatty holding a Madagascar Pochard - actually in Madagascar! I helped set up a breeding centre for Madagascar Pochard there - it’s working & they’re being reintroduced 👍#conservation #endangeredspecies

Mostly mallards

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#WorldWaterfowlDay, eh? Here, have a bufflehead hen! 💚

It's World Waterfowl Day today so a good excuse to post these... #WorldWaterfowlDay

Apparently it’s #worldwaterfowlday here’s some pics of waterfowl I’ve taken over the years, including me wrestling a Whooper Swan at #martinmere a few years back. The other pics are Blue-winged Goose, Baer’s Pochard ducklings & drake Baikal Teal.

Common Pochard, Tufted Duck and Coot.

..... and on this World Waterfowl Day, I'm spending time at the laptop writing about one of our most attractive diving duck species, the Common Pochard! Happy World Waterfowl Day to you all 🦆🦢 waterfowlday.org #worldwaterfowlday

World Waterfowl Day – Celebrating wild waterfowl every year on January 17th.

Did you know that today is the first annual world waterfowl day? #worldwaterfowlday? www.waterfowlday.org

Today is World Waterfowl Day. Celebrate the ducks, geese and swans that grace our planet. Their wetland habitats are under threat from damage, destruction and pollution and what harms these wonderful birds, ultimately harms us all. waterfowlday.org #worldwaterfowlday