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Elegant, slender duck with long neck and tail.
At a glance
Sounds
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Males have a chocolate brown head with a white slash coming up the neck, white breast, and mostly gray body. Females are patterned light brown.
Forages in wetlands and in fields on agricultural waste grains.
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