Aquatic Birds

Sleeping Beauty

This is what it looks like when a pintail drake closes his eye, the eyelid is white. So many times I've been looking at one and thought "Oh no, it is blind in one eye" Then realized oh yeah, that is just a closed eye.
Male Northern Pintail Duck (Anas acuta)

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