Mandarin ducks

Mandarin ducks are swimming in the pond. The male mandarin duck is extremely easy to identify. Considered one of the prettiest birds, it has orange, green, white, blue-ish, and black feathers, some of which curl up into a "sail" shape . Female mandarin ducks are nowhere near as distinctive, and it can often be difficult to distinguish them from the closely related native female wood ducks .Female mandarin ducks are gray but have a pale tip at the bill and a stripe behind the eye.