‘Let us probe the silent places,
let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There’s a whisper on the night-wind,
there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go.’
Robert Service ‘The call of the wild’
White-backed duck
Usually encountered in pairs loafing unobtrusively amidst floating water plants, lilies in particular, in quiet backwaters and floodplain margins, as well as settling ponds in urban water treatment systems.
White-backed duck with ducklings
A confiding diving duck exposes its conspicuous white back only when flapping about or taking flight when pressed.
Patrick and Marie-Louise Cardwell
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