Mallard Duck (Anas platyrhynchos)
It is thought that the mallard was the first domesticated bird - even before the chicken! It goes by other names such as
common mallard, common wild duck, gray duck, green head and even stock duck.
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
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Length: 15-16 inches Wingspan: 36 inches
Large dabbling duck
Blue speculum with white bar along both leading and trailing edges
Silvery-white wing linings
Juvenile similar to adult female ...
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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
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What they look like: Both the male and the female have bright orange feet and a purple-blue rectangle of color where the wing joins the body.
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
The first four photos are of males in various stages of eclipse plumage. The last two are of males in breeding plumage ...
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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos ...
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Relatives in same Genus
Northern Pintail (A. acuta)
American Wigeon (A. americana)
Northern Shoveler (A. clypeata)
Green-winged Teal (A. crecca)
Cinnamon Teal (A. cyanoptera)
Blue-winged Teal (A. discors)
Eurasian Wigeon (A. penelope) ...
The mallard has to be America's favorite duck. After all, mallard chicks will easily win your heard. Learn how to attract mallard to your yard, and listen to their song.
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Anas platyrhynchos
The Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a widespread duck across all of North America.
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
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The Mallard is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.
Mallards are probably the most familiar duck to most, and well-adapted to living around human activity. Many semi-domesticated Mallards have learned to live on handouts around city parks and ponds. The Mallard is the ancestor of many domestic ducks.
Mallard: Medium-sized dabbling duck with gray body and chestnut-brown breast. Head is green and neck ring is white. Bill is yellow-green. Wing speculum is white-bordered metallic purple-blue.
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Duck - common name for wild and domestic waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and swans. It is hunted and bred for its meat, eggs, and feathers.
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Mallards in New Zealand were derived from both European and American stock. In New Zealand they interbreed with Grey ducks (Anas superciliosa) and hybrids are common.
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Male & Female pair of Mallards at Medicine Park, OK. Time is estimated.
04/14/11
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Mallard Ducks are common wild ducks that live in Northern Hemisphere wetlands. Most domestic (tame) ducks were bred from mallards. The female is called a hen, the male is called a drake, and the young are called ducklings.
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Type: Bird Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: 5 to 10 years Size: 20 to 26 in (50 to 65 cm) Weight: 2 to 3 lbs (1 to 1.4 kg) Group name: Sord (in flight) Did you know?
Mallard duck question -
We live in central Florida next to a 1 acre pond. This spring there have been two separate sets of baby ducks that have disappeared. The first of 11 and the last group of 6 were only around for 2 days or so.
Mallards are common to abundant in the Weaselhead/Glenmore Park area in all months except January and February. Look for them on the reservoir and along the Elbow River. Brent Johner
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Mallards pair off during fall and winter, and breeding begins in early springtime. The female chooses the nest site and takes total responsibility for incubating the eggs, while the male can generally be found keeping watch nearby.
The mallard is the ancestor of almost all breeds of domestic ducks. It breeds with feral domestic ducks. The offspring of these mismatched pairs exhibit a wide-variety of color patterns.
Mallard
(Anas platyrhynchos)
Status: Year-round Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed
2007 to 2011: Confirmed ...
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Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus
Status Locally common in summer, uncommon in winter. Breeds. Formerly occurred as a rare stray in autumn. A beautiful drake taken on the Grand Pre meadows in October 1900 by D.R.
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
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Mallards are the archetypal and most recognisable ducks. They are found wherever there is water, from rivers and lakes to remote ponds and coastal marshes.
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Metallic green head, brown breast, body is mostly grey.
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Scientific Name: Anas platyrynchos
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Mallards are known as "puddle ducks". They feed by tipping tail-up to reach aquatic plants, seeds and snails. Mallards live in fresh marshes, rivers, lakes, bays and some city ponds.
Mallard ducks average around 20" to 26" in length and can weigh 2 to 3 lbs. The male is known as a drake and the female is called a hen; the flocks are called sords when they are in flight. They are common in North American, Europe and Asia.
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos - Adult male in breeding plumage
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Mallards and their nests are protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it an offence to intentionally kill, injure or take any wild bird, or to take, damage or destroy its nest, eggs or young.
Mallards swim with their tail held above the water, so when trouble comes, they can spring directly out of the water and into the air.
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The Mallard is possibly the best-known duck in the world. Its varied diet consists of aquatic plant roots, seeds, insects and smaller aquatic animals.
Mallard Nesting Structures:
The Delta Waterfowl Foundation's Web site has information on constructing a hen house
(tunnel) for mallards for protection against predators ("Demonstrating Success," then
"Delta's Hen House Program").
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Mallard ducks as pets can be easily distinguished, and are found on a large scale in the U.S. During the breeding season, the males can be recognized by their green heads and yellow bills, and the females by their brown feathers.
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Found: The Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Photographed by: 4) Alan D Wilson at LaFarge Lake, Coquitlam, British Columbia.
All other photos by Dick Daniels
2, 3, 4) female ...
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
The familiar mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is the most numerous duck in Britain, and is the ancestor of the domestic duck. Both male and... More 31 Images 13 Videos ...
4. Mallard female with eleven chicks; did you answer her ad for a baby-sitter on CraigsList?
5. First chick. One tiny Brewer's Blackbird and four siblings still in the egg.
Mallards begin to find mates as early as August prior to the breeding season, with most birds being paired by early January. Nesting normally begins in early to late April, with a peak in May.
Mallards are by far the most common duck at feeding sites and many rely on artificial feeding to survive the winter but other ducks may be observed as well.
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The familiar mallard with its green head, yellow bill, brown chest and gray body, is quite common across North America.
Range: palearctic (Europe, Asia, North America, Australia) ...
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Grey DuckAnas superciliosa (Parera)
Australasian ShovelerAnas rhynchotis (Kuruwhengi) ...
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The Mallard is a common wild duck that is the ancestor of most domestic ducks. Or go to a simple version of the duck printout (unlabeled diagram and no information).
Feral mallards are mating with mottled ducks, producing a hybrid offspring. State biologists are observing more and more mixed flocks and mixed pairs in the wild and these. These hybrid offspring are fertile, which further compounds the problem.
Koloa quack like a mallard, although they are not as vocal.
DIET:
Koloa are known to take a wide variety of food including snails, earthworms, dragonflies, algae and the leaf parts and seed of a variety of wetland plants.
Studies of the effects of red fox predation in the prairie pothole region of North America have indicated that although the consumption of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) may not be high, the effect on the mallard population may be critical [7,26].
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Man and Landscape in Past: Ustinovka Paleolithic Complex (Russian Far East)
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Like most domestic ducks, the Indian Runner is a series developed from the wild mallard. It can be a variety of colors including black, white, chocolate, Cumberland blue, fawn, mallard, white, and trout.
The wood duck, smaller than the Mallard, nests in hollow trees; the drake has of various colors iridescent ornament to lakes and ponds . The Blue winged, and green winged and European teals are small ducks that fly with great speed.
The Mottled Duck is very similar to the female Mallard and American Black Duck. The American Black Duck is a very rare winter visitor.
In addition to thousands of wigeon, together with mallard, teal and shoveler, the selection of birds at Buckenham RSPB reserve often includes bean, white-fronted and barnacle geese.
Mallards and wood ducks thrive in these areas, and deer may feed on aquatic plants growing along the edges. These same abilities create potential problems for humans, where flooding can damage roads, forests and farmland.
Redheads often parasitize; Mallards and Ruddy Ducks also parasitize, occ remove teal eggs. Clutches >11 may be result of parasitization. Pair bond maintained throughout most of incubation.
Adults
American black ducks (Anas rubripes), mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), herons (Ardeidae), bitterns (Ardeidae), rails (Rallidae), northern harriers (Circus cyaneus), and crows (Corvus spp.) prey upon both tadpoles and adults (Stockwell 1999).
A visit to the Chincoteague Fish and Wildlife Refuge, can reveal an array of waterfowl including pintail, gadwall, merganser, wigeon, mallards, green-winged teal, blue-winged teal, Canada and snow geese.
Jersey Zoo has bred Meller's duck (an endangered mallard from Madagascar), and white winged wood-duck from S. E. Asia, and waterfowl form an important part of a great many collections all around the world.
the wild Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, but many breeds have become much larger than their wild ancestor, with a "hull length" (from base of neck to base of tail) of 30 cm ...
The domestic ducks are dabblers too. They are descendents of the Mallards. Dabbling ducks take off from the water in quick jumps. Ducks with longer necks dive with their head down into the shallow water and pick up their food.
Anatidae Family, Order Anseriformes, Gooselike Birds, Mallard, S1ea Duck, Dabbling Duck
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