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A Recent Visitor
Pinky the Pink-eared duck flew into the chain of ponds on the 29th of January much to the delight of many.
It stayed, moving back and forth from the creek pond to largest of the chain of ponds for about 2 weeks.
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A few facts.. The Pink-eared Duck is found throughout Australia, it feeds in shallow warmish waters.
The highly specialised bill is fringed with fine lamellae (grooves) to filter out the microscopic plants and animals which make up the bulk of its diet.
Given its pink ear had not quite developed it was thought to be a juvenile. The previous sighting (I believe) was back in 2015 when Gio saw a pair.
