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Showcasing Manky Mallard Portraits – They Are Oddly Beautiful

By Mia McPherson|February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Domestic Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: Anas platyrhynchos, Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, close ups, domesticated, ducks, feral ducks, hybrids, Mallard, manky, manky mallards, mutt ducks, odd, portraits, waterfowl|

Some people might call these manky mallards homely, weird or even downright ugly but I prefer thinking of them as oddly beautiful and believe they are worthy of being showcased once in a while.

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Some of the Birds I Love at Bear River National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|February 6th, 2013|Categories: American Avocets, American Barn Owls, American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Black-crowned Night Herons, Black-necked Stilts, Box Elder County, Duck hybrids, Eastern Kingbirds, Forster's Terns, Marsh Wrens, Snowy Egrets, Swainson's Hawks, Tundra Swans, Utah, Western Grebes, Western Kingbirds, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: American Avocet, American Barn Owl, American White Pelican, avocet, avocets, birds of prey, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-necked Stilt, blackbird, blackbirds, Cinnamon x Green-winged Teal hybrid, Eastern Kingbird, Forster's Tern, grebes, hawk, hawks, hybrid, hybrids, Marsh Wren, night heron, night herons, pelican, pelicans, raptors, Snowy Egret, stilt, stilts, Swainson's Hawk, swans, tern, terns, Tundra Swan, Western Grebe, Western Kingbird, wren, wrens, Yellow-headed Blackbird|

One of my favorite locations to photograph birds in northern Utah is Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. I've selected some of the birds there that delight and entertain me while I observe and photograph them.

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