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The route Mrs. Mallard takes from the Charles River to the Public Garden. Click on image for detail. The White House 2003 Christmas decoration using Make Way for Ducklings as the theme. The story begins as two ducks (Mr. and Mrs. Mallard) fly over various potential locations in New England to start a family. Each time Mr. Mallard selects a ...
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Flying female mallard. A rather nice action shot of a female Mallard Duck coming into land, framed by two darker bands in the background. It appears on the Mallard article, but it could do with a more prominent position. The picture seems to be the only contribution by Mike Correns.
File:Ducks in plymouth, massachusetts-edit2.jpg Edit #2. File:Ducks in plymouth edit.jpg Edit #3. Slightly cropped, various tweaks. Found this gem while just browsing around. Another amazing piece of work by User:Diliff. Appears as the main image for duck, and also in Global spread of H5N1 (though, I highly doubt that these two in particular ...
The Mariana mallard was a resident allopatric population – in most respects a good species – apparently initially derived from mallard-Pacific black duck hybrids; [139] it became extinct in the late 20th century. [140] The Laysan duck is an insular relative of the mallard, with a very small and fluctuating population.
Domestic ducks are mostly promiscuous, where wild mallards are monogamous. Domestic ducks have lost the mallard's territorial behaviour, and are less aggressive than mallards. [7] [8] Despite these differences, domestic ducks frequently mate with wild mallard, producing fully fertile hybrid offspring. [9]
A crest of feathers may appear in any duck breed or type deriving from the wild Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, with a frequency of some 0.0001%–0.001% of all eggs hatched. [9]: 89 It results from the action of a very variable autosomal dominant allele, which is semi-lethal and may display incomplete penetrance as well as incomplete dominance.
The mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) [note 1] or mottled mallard is a medium-sized species of dabbling duck. It is intermediate in appearance between the female mallard and the American black duck . It is closely related to those species , and is sometimes erroneously considered a subspecies of the former.