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Paradise ducklings

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Paradise ducklings

Paradise shelduck chicks are striped black and white. Typically for ducklings, they leave the nest within a day of hatching and go to water to feed themselves, under the watchful eye of the adults.

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Christina Troup, Wetland birds – Paradise shelducks – pūtangitangi, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14632/paradise-ducklings (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 1 March 2009.