Walking the edge of the lake today, there’s a pink eared duck—wimbin—sleeping on the water’s edge, with yet the Pacific black duck nearby. They stir a little when we pause to look. The wimbin shows us his best side-on feature: he’s all black-and-white stripes, square-tipped bill, dark crown and black eye. And up near the dark crown, the tiniest hint of a little pink dot. And for this they renamed him the pink eared duck. “What about the zebra stripes?” I say. “Or the shovel shaped bill?” my nephew replies.