Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) drake swimming with an acorn it has dived for in a woodland pond watched by others, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

---

Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) drake swimming with an acorn it has dived for in a woodland pond watched by two other drakes, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK, January.

---

Size: 5361px × 4021px
Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: acorn, acorns, adult, aix, anatidae, birds, british, brown, dean, deciduous, diving, drake, duck, ducks, england, europe, feeding, foraging, forest, freshwater, galericulata, kingdom, lake, male, mandarin, oak, orange, pond, ponds, purple, quercus, robur, searching, swimming, uk, united, vertebrates, waterfowl, wetland, white, wildfowl, wildlife, winter, woodland, woods