Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.
This mallard behaved in a very strange fashion (see video), as if it had something stuck in its throat and couldn’t dislodge it.
[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]
The sound of the mallard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)
Distribution and sightings of the mallard across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 