Male and female mandarin ducks are raising babies at the same time. It is rare
Male and female parent birds are "bringing babies" at the same time. This male mandarin duck makes history
The male mandarin duck is guarding his partner and the chicks she hatched
In Harbin City, the first nest of wild baby mandarin ducks was born in Zhaolin Park this summer. , the number of 28 is a record high since observation records began.
There are 28 little mandarin ducks in a nest, an astonishing number
More than twenty little guys, led by male and female parent birds, parade together in Yuanyang Lake. This scene is also the first time that the mandarin ducks have come to the park to breed in the past 30 years. . In the history of mandarin duck breeding, the female parent bird basically "brought up" the babies alone to grow up.
Little guys visiting the lake
Bird experts said that mandarin ducks are "single-parent families". Most of them are female birds raising their chicks alone. Scenes like this where male and female parents raise their babies at the same time are very rare.
Little mandarin ducks basically grow up in "single-parent" families
The reason why mandarin ducks grow up in single-parent families is because under normal circumstances, when the chicks are born, the male adult bird is in the moulting period. The explanation from the perspective of biological science is: after the breeding season, the flight feathers on the wings of some male ducks such as mandarin ducks will fall off and be replaced. At this stage, they are not good at flying.
Bringing babies is too tiring, and the male bird closes his eyes.
In order to avoid natural enemies, while changing flight feathers, the feathers on the male mandarin duck's body will gradually be replaced by darker feathers. At this time, they will generally stay away from the baby. Female birds hide in remote corners in twos and threes. The main reason why this male mandarin duck rarely raises babies is because it has not yet reached the moulting period.
Occasionally, I will run to the shore and take a nap by myself
My dad sometimes teaches the little guy how to identify food
A family cruise
My dad starts to take a nap
