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Mandarin Duck

This duck, native to Japan, Korea, China, and the United Kingdom, is one of the most colorful of it’s kind. The males are a rainbow of colors. The females are mostly grey with a tiny amount of blue on the wings. In fact, the Cantonese term for “mandarin duck” is “yuan-yang”, which means  “Unlikely pair”. […]

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 King Bird-of-paradise

This bird is from the Lowland forests of Papua New Guinea and is one of smallest birds-of-paradise. At 6 1/4 inches long, it has a yellow crest, a red head, a green-and-white underbelly, green-and-red-and-white wings, blue feet, and spiraled tail feathers. During courtship, this bird puffs out like a fluff ball as it’s spiraled tail […]