Bar-headed Geese (Anser indicus). Pair, gander initiating courtship and pre-copulatory display head dipping in water, right.
Bar-headed Geese (Anser indicus). Female left. Pair, with gander initiating and beginning a courtship and pre-copulatory display, head dipping below water surface. When reciprocated, head and neck dipping into the water by female, sometimes synchronizing of movements with male, will occur. Male, if female receptive, will clamber onto her back and copulation takes place. No. 2 in a consecutive series of 12.
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