"A glamorous addition, a rarity, flown in from wherever to bestow a hint of the exotic on these everyday urban surroundings. A ferruginous duck..."
"Hardcore birders, valuing the truly wild above all else, might sniff at an escapee, but a bird is a bird."
"Small, dainty, the colour of expensive chocolate, the pert dome of its head betraying its relationship to the larger, more familiar pochard."
"It has found itself in a place of comfort and plenty. I study it, enjoying the rich brown of its plumage, wondering where it's come from..."
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