The female body feathers are mainly gray-brown, with white lines around and behind the eyes, no crown feathers to stroke the wing sails, and pure white belly feathers. The female mandarin duck is much less colorful in comparison.

How can you tell the difference between male and female Mandarin ducks?

Mandarin ducks, also known as official ducks, are small swimming birds. The total length is about 40 centimeters. The male's plumage is brilliantly colored and has a metallic sheen, with bright green frontal and central head feathers that form a crown with the metallic dark green and dark purple long feathers on the subject's neck, and pure white brow stripes on both sides of the head, and a pair of chestnut-yellow, upright scalloped wing sails on the mandarin duck's wings. The mandarin ducks have dark brown tail feathers, purple-brown upper chest and chest sides, and downy black lower chest sides, framed by two pure white horizontal bands. The mandarin ducks have a dark red beak and yellowish-red feet. The female's body plumage is predominantly grayish-brown, with white lines around and behind the eyes, no crown feathers or wing sails, and pure white ventral feathers. The female mandarin duck is much less colorful in comparison.

Are there male and female Mandarin ducks?

Mandarin ducks

A solution to the alias of the official duck, belonging to the duck family, with the scientific name of Aix galericulata.

Small swimming birds. The total length is about 40 centimeters. The male's plumage is brilliantly colored and has a metallic luster. Forehead and central head plumage bright green; occipital plumage metallic copper russet, forming a crown plumage with metallic dark green and dark purple long feathers on the nape of the neck; pure white browline on both sides of the head; flight feathers brown to blackish brown, with a pair of chestnut-yellow, upright, scalloped wing sails on the wings. Tail feathers dark brown, purple-brown on upper breast and sides of breast; downy black on sides of lower breast. Fringed with two pure white horizontal bands; beak dark red. Feet yellowish red. Female body plumage predominantly grayish brown, with white lines around and behind the eyes; no crown feathers or wing sails. Ventral plumage pure white.

Inhabits mountain valleys, streams, reed ponds, lakes, and paddy fields. Plant-based food, but also eat insects and other small animals. Breeding period between April and September, male and female pairing moved to the nesting area. The nests are placed in tree holes and are lined with hay and down feathers. Each nest lays 7 to 12 eggs, light greenish-yellow in color.

The most interesting characteristic of mandarin ducks is that they "stop when they are coupled, but fly when they are paired". For thousands of years, mandarin ducks have been a beautiful symbol of harmony and love between husband and wife, and they are also highly praised as the embodiment of unswerving and pure love in Chinese literature and art. However, according to scientific research, mandarin ducks are not lifelong.

Mandarin ducks mostly breed in the northern northeast and Inner Mongolia; they overwinter in the southeastern provinces as well as in Fujian and Guangdong; and a few are resident birds in Taiwan, Yunnan and Guizhou. In Pingnan County, Fujian Province, there is an 11-kilometer-long Baiyan Creek with deep and beautiful water and quiet mountains and forests on both sides, where thousands of mandarin ducks overwinter every year, also known as Mandarin Duck Creek. It is the first mandarin duck nature reserve in China.

It belongs to the second class of national protected animals.

Male and Female Problems of Mandarin Ducks

Mandarin Ducks (Male is Mandarin Ducks, Female is Mandarin Ducks)

There is a song called "Looking for the Early Return of the King" that sings like this: "...Sen like Mandarin Ducks and Water Ducks follow each other from time to time, but they are not intended to come to be split apart..."! Alas! The melody is very beautiful, but the mandarin ducks are male birds, the mandarin ducks are female birds, the mandarin ducks are mandarin ducks, the water ducks are water ducks, the mandarin ducks are water ducks, and the mandarin ducks are following the water ducks, so it's no wonder that they're crying their eyes out!

Since ancient times, human beings have said that we lovebirds are "birds of a feather", saying that we have a good relationship, playing in the water together during the day, sleeping with our necks crossed at night, and that "if we get one of them, the other one will die", but in fact? In fact? Let's listen to our "confession":

"A duck": See, I'm very bright, and the one who follows me ***, dressed vulgar, is my wife this year, "A yuanyuan". What! This year's wife? That's right, we change every year, not "from one to the other", and I'm neither loyal nor considerate, frankly speaking, it's okay to play in the water together, but hatching eggs is her family's business, not mine, and as soon as she starts to hold the eggs and stops playing in the water with me, I'm off cheating all over the place, which is why I'm always in a fight with the other family's man. Besides, we live in a tree, and it's not easy enough to balance on our own, not to mention that our necks aren't as long as a swan's, so it's a wonder that we don't fall halfway to our deaths when we sleep with our necks crossed!

"Mandarin": I'm vulgar, that's because I can't be as beautiful as the Mandarin, otherwise I'll attract enemies when I hatch my eggs. I like to lay my eggs in a hole in a tree by the water, and my cave is not big enough to allow Mandarin to live in it, and he's too much of a pain in the ass to bring trouble to us. So I let him have his way. He was no help at all! When the babies were born, I would demonstrate the technique of flying from the tree into the pool and encourage them to fly down bravely, and if the little ones didn't listen to my advice, I would do my best to kick them into the water. Don't worry, the little darlings won't get hurt, and that's one of the reasons we're going to live in a big tree by the water.

"Ah Yuanyang" and "Ah Yuanyang": We are very picky about our environment and love to live in lakes that are clean enough, deep enough and wide enough, and also have seclusion and big trees with holes near the water. We live in lakes high up in the mountains in the summer, and in the winter we migrate down to the plains of Yilan, which is called "vertical migration", while our northern Mandarin Ducks also migrate to Yilan in the winter, which is called "north-south migration". In the early years, there were quite a few of us in Yilan. However, we were so beautiful that we were killed, and many of our compatriots were caught and raised or made into taxidermy specimens, so the bird population is not thriving, and nowadays the habitat has been greatly damaged, with the water not being clear, the trees cut down, and the development of the area. The flowers are very beautiful.

Do you like us? Please start by protecting the environment where we live!

How to tell the difference between male and female Mandarin ducks

Female. Yellowish breast, male, reddish breast.

You can't tell the difference at the beginning, but gradually you will see the difference.

Adult female quail has black spot on breast.

How to tell the difference between male and female Mandarin ducks

The pretty one is the male

How to tell the difference between male and female Mandarin ducklings, can you separate them by color?

1. Look at the head shape: The male's head shape is dorsal, pointed and slightly smaller. The female's head is flat, smooth, and round, and her head is slightly larger than the male's.

2, the female's head is flat, smooth, and round.

2, watch the body type: male birds thin body, hair tight, active, fierce, eye circle from the top of the head distance is farther, the eyes show small. Female birds are fat, slightly loose hair, not very mobile, the eye circle is closer to the top of the head, and the eyes appear large.

3, lying bar posture: male birds on the bar for the standing position, head erect, and show robust. The female is lying on the bar in a reclining position and is docile.

Male mandarin ducks (left) and female mandarin ducks (right)

4. Watch the tip of the tail feathers: the tip of the male's tail feathers is pointed, and the tip of the female's tail feathers is forked into a W-shape. The shape of the male bird's tail feathers is V-shaped.

5. Touch the cloaca: the male's cloaca has a small inter-pubic spacing and an emerging protuberance (i.e., a pointed shape). The cloaca of female birds has a large distance between the two pubic bones, especially in adult birds, one middle finger can be inserted, and it is flat with no protuberance. This method is particularly accurate, and experienced people can identify males and females from small birds without any mistake.

How to distinguish male and female Mandarin ducks

Generally, the color of the male is brighter than that of the female