DaveWhitfield published Mandarin duck finds mate after a year of waiting

In the last week a lone female mandarin duck which had been hanging around the Attenborough Nature Centre for over a year has finally met a mate, writes Tim Sexton, assistant manager at the centre.On Tuesday morning a male mandarin appeared on the reserve and the two ducks seem to have taken an instant liking to each other. They have been inseparable ever since and the male is regularly displaying to the female. It is not the first time a male mandarin has been seen on the reserve, but in...