{"id":11046,"date":"2023-08-15T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/?p=11046"},"modified":"2023-08-15T06:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:45:28","slug":"mandarinand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/mandarine-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mandarin ducks in \u00c5rstaviken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked by \u00c5rstaviken and noticed that a family of Mandarin ducks was sitting there. So, they have managed to nest in Stockholm, and I filmed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a beautiful, colorful duck originally from East Asia. It is known for its striking appearance, especially the male's radiant colors and intricate patterns on its feathers. The male has, among other features, brilliant green feathers on its head, deep blue and copper-colored markings, and an orange patch behind the eye. The female is more subdued in her colors, often in brown and white, but still beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mandarin duck prefers calm waters, such as lakes, ponds, and slow-moving rivers, where it can find food like insects, small fish, and aquatic plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Mandarin duck originally comes from East Asia, it has been introduced to other parts of the world, including Europe, where it now exists in wild populations. These introductions have often been the result of birds escaping from collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mandarin duck is closely related to the North American wood duck. Both species belong to the genus Aix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mandarinand i \u00c5rsta viken\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EhWO9HHsibg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mandarin\u00e4nder \u00e4r verkligen fascinerande f\u00e5glar! H\u00e4r \u00e4r 20 intressanta och coola fakta om dem:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>F\u00e4rgprakt<\/strong>: Hanens fj\u00e4derdr\u00e4kt \u00e4r en av de mest f\u00e4rgstarka bland alla \u00e4nder. Den inneh\u00e5ller blandade f\u00e4rger av bl\u00e5tt, gr\u00f6nt, orange och vitt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Monogami<\/strong>: Mandarin\u00e4nder \u00e4r monogama \u00e5tminstone under h\u00e4ckningss\u00e4songen. Ett par h\u00e5ller ofta ihop under flera s\u00e4songer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Flygf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga<\/strong>: Trots sin pr\u00e5liga fj\u00e4derdr\u00e4kt \u00e4r mandarinanden en skicklig flygare och kan man\u00f6vrera snabbt genom t\u00e4tt skog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ursprung<\/strong>: De h\u00e4rstammar fr\u00e5n \u00d6stasien men har introducerats till andra delar av v\u00e4rlden, inklusive Europa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>H\u00e4ckningsplats<\/strong>: De bygger sina bon i tr\u00e4dens h\u00e5ligheter, ibland flera meter ovanf\u00f6r marken.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fallande ungar<\/strong>: Efter kl\u00e4ckning hoppar de nykl\u00e4ckta ungarna ner fr\u00e5n boet till marken eller vattnet nedanf\u00f6r, utan att skada sig.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>F\u00f6da<\/strong>: De \u00e4ter fr\u00e4mst v\u00e4xter men kompletterar \u00e4ven med sm\u00e5 djur som insekter och sniglar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Simf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga<\/strong>: Mandarin\u00e4nder \u00e4r skickliga simmare men tillbringar ocks\u00e5 mycket tid p\u00e5 land.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tystl\u00e5tna<\/strong>: Till skillnad fr\u00e5n m\u00e5nga andra \u00e4nder \u00e4r mandarin\u00e4nder relativt tystl\u00e5tna.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Livsl\u00e4ngd<\/strong>: I det vilda kan de leva upp till 6 \u00e5r, men i f\u00e5ngenskap kan de leva l\u00e4ngre.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hotad i vilt tillst\u00e5nd<\/strong>: Trots att de \u00e4r vanliga i parker och p\u00e5 andra platser d\u00e4r de har introducerats, \u00e4r de faktiskt hotade i sitt naturliga habitat i Kina.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>H\u00e4ckningsbeteende<\/strong>: Hanen utf\u00f6r en komplicerad parningsdans med mycket r\u00f6relser f\u00f6r att imponera p\u00e5 honan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Migrationsm\u00f6nster<\/strong>: Mandarin\u00e4nder i norra delarna av deras utbredningsomr\u00e5de migrerar s\u00f6derut under vintern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nattaktiva<\/strong>: De \u00e4r mest aktiva under skymning och gryning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>S\u00e4llskapliga<\/strong>: Utanf\u00f6r h\u00e4ckningss\u00e4songen kan mandarin\u00e4nder hittas i grupper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Undviker fiender<\/strong>: De kan dyka f\u00f6r att undvika rovdjur.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vingslag<\/strong>: N\u00e4r de flyger g\u00f6r de snabba och direkta vingslag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fj\u00e4derdr\u00e4kt<\/strong>: Efter h\u00e4ckningss\u00e4songen f\u00e5r hanen en mer d\u00e4mpad fj\u00e4derdr\u00e4kt som liknar honans, innan den \u00e5terf\u00e5r sina lysande f\u00e4rger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Storlek<\/strong>: De \u00e4r relativt sm\u00e5 j\u00e4mf\u00f6rt med m\u00e5nga andra \u00e4nder, oftast mellan 41-49 cm l\u00e5nga.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00d6gonf\u00e4rg<\/strong>: Vuxna hanar har r\u00f6da \u00f6gon, medan honorna och ungf\u00e5glarna har bruna \u00f6gon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jag gick i \u00c5rstaviken och m\u00e4rkte att det satt en familj mandarin\u00e4nder. De har allts\u00e5 lyckats h\u00e4cka i Stockholm och jag gjorde en film med dem. Mandarinand (Aix galericulata) \u00e4r en vacker f\u00e4rgrik and som ursprungligen kommer fr\u00e5n \u00d6stasien. Den \u00e4r k\u00e4nd f\u00f6r sitt i\u00f6gonfallande utseende, s\u00e4rskilt hanens str\u00e5lande f\u00e4rger och komplexa m\u00f6nster p\u00e5 fj\u00e4drarna.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":11048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vetenskap"},"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",1920,1441,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-150x113.jpg",150,113,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-1024x769.jpg",788,592,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-1536x1153.jpg",1536,1153,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",1920,1441,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks-16x12.jpg",16,12,true],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",150,113,false],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",450,338,false],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",1200,901,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",1920,1441,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg",768,576,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"presidentofgalaxy.com","author_link":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/author\/presidentofgalaxy-com\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/science\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Vetenskap<\/a>","tag_info":"Vetenskap","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pair_of_mandarin_ducks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presidentofgalaxy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}