Pal-Mates … weekend web tip
![a pair of Maned Ducks grazing at the waterside](https://www.waterfowl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Maned-geese.MW_-1024x733.jpg)
What’s in a name — Maned Duck or Maned Goose? Life is a gradient of relatedness and what taxonomy tries to do is put it in that order. When the common names were thought up for waterfowl they were either called a duck or a goose according to how we traditionally recognised each — ‘ducks’ […]