Place: Canal near Market Drayton, Shropshire
Date: 25 April 2016.
[Aix galericulata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mandarin duck]
The sound of the mandarin duck (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Darrell-Lambert)
Distribution and sightings of the mandarin duck across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 