ML201878601 IBC 1500369
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Male Musk Duck displaying to a female. The Musk Duck (Biziura lobata) is Australia’s weirdest waterbird. The male has stiff bristle-like tail feathers and a pendulous inflatable sac dangling under its bill that is used in its mating display. Female Musk Ducks are smaller and have an almost invisible skin lobe under their bills. Musk Ducks are diving ducks, feeding mainly on aquatic invertebrates, small fish, frogs and ducklings, sometimes eating seeds. This male was displaying in the late afternoon at Lake Monger near Perth, Western Australia. He spread his stiff tail feathers and bent them over his back, inflated his throat sac and splashed the water with both feet whilst making a piping call followed by a loud whistle. A female approached him closely, and seemed very interested in his display but swam off after a while. Elevation: 13 m. Date added to IBC: June 17, 2018.
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IBC scientific name: Biziura lobata lobata.
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