Other Animals

These are Siberian Red-breasted Geese. They are the smallest and most beautiful geese in the world, weighing only about three pounds. Needless to say, they are very rare.
Red-breasted young at one day old. They have a long way to go to become the beauties that the parents are, but they are still very interesting.
At three weeks of age, the red-breasted young appear clumsy and all legs, but they are beginning to get feathers and will soon become as beautiful as the parents.
Being probably the most beautiful duck in the world, the Mandarin is very closely related to the wood duck, although they are found in nature half a world apart.
Here's the newest and most unique color mutation of the wood duck, the Silver Wood Duck.