Various mutations of the mandarin duck are found in captivity. The most common is the white mandarin duck. A man kills a drake mandarin duck for food. The mandarin duck formation was ideally symmetrical. The greatest threat to the mandarin duck is habitat loss due to loggers. Fast-flowing rivers attract specialist species, notably grey wagtail, dipper, common sandpiper, mandarin duck and goosander. Predation of the mandarin duck varies between different parts of its range. It shares its genus with the Asian Mandarin duck ("Aix galericulata"). He was presented with a stuffed mandarin duck for his sixth birthday present. Chuojiao is also known as the "Water Margin Outlaw style" and "Mandarin Duck Leg" (). The mandarin duck ("Aix galericulata") is a perching duck species native to the East Palearctic.