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Drake wood duck with a brood of ducklings?????

June 10, 2011 at 2:53AM
(Photo by Bill Marchel/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
00330-087.01 Mallard Duck ducklings and drake wood are in marsh typical of species.  Hen mallard is out of sight. Cryptic, duckling, hatch, young, spring.
(Photo by Bill Marchel/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

No, this is not as it appears. The ducklings are actually mallards, and the mallard hen is barely out of the photo. The drake wood duck just happened to have been swimming past.

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