Michael Warren: Mandarin Duck

Artist: Michael Warren
1938 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1986
Image Size: 15.75 by 19.75 inches
Overall Size: 17.5 by 21.75 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

Mandarin Duck, common name for a perching duck closely allied to the wood duck. The mandarin duck is found in temperate regions of eastern Asia. Like the wood duck, the male is intricately patterned, but in the mandarin duck, the vanes of certain feathers are enormously expanded and upright. The females of the two species look much alike. The Mandarin Duck is one of the flashiest ducks in the world, is a native of Asia.

The mandarin duck is a member of the family Anatidae, in the order Anseriformes. The mandarin duck is classified as Aix galericulata. The male in breeding plumage is the most highly ornamented of all ducks. The forehead and crown are glossy green passing to purplish, coppery red and green on the nuchal crest; sides of the head white, cheeks buff, a ruff of chestnut feathers on the sides of the neck and foreneck, back olive brown with "sails" of steel blue on the inner web; bill red; legs orange-buff. Mandarin ducks are mostly ground feeders on seeds and plants gathered at the water's edge or in the forest. Will take spiders, insects and small molluscs.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® Mint Stamp of the World Panel for the "Endangered Birds of Japan" stamps issued October 22, 1983.

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