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Grey Teal

A soft brown duck with red eyes and a gentle personality. Often found in farm dams, wetlands and estuaries and sometimes in large flocks.

Wandering Whistling-duck

Graceful duck with elongated neck and airy whistle calls across wetlands at dusk.

Magpie Goose

Ancient and dinosaur-like, with long neck, black-and-white plumage and knobbled forehead it appears like a wetland icon.

Hardhead

Australia’s only true diving duck, the Hardhead is a compact, chocolate-brown bird with a gleaming white eye (in males) and white underwings seen in flight.

Australian Wood Duck

Looking more like a delicate goose than a duck, the Australian Wood Duck (sometimes known as a Maned Duck) sports a brown head, grey speckled body, and soft whistling call. […]