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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Canoncan on March 10, 2007, 09:31:08 PM

Title: Mallard
Post by: Canoncan on March 10, 2007, 09:31:08 PM

I am guessing mallard. It was with hundreds at Coburg today as I was there to take some photo's of the laughing gull. The black bill is throwing me though.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/canoncan/Mallard1.jpg)

Title: Perplexed
Post by: Canoncan on March 15, 2007, 09:35:58 PM

82 Views on a birding sight and no one seems to know? Were my expectations too high?

Title: Mallard
Post by: JTF on March 15, 2007, 10:10:11 PM

My call is a Cross Hybrid Mallard. Mallards frequently interbreed with domestic stock, producing a bewildering variety of patterns and colors. They also hybridize with wild species such as the closely related American Black Duck and even occasionally with Northern Pintails.

Title: mystery duck
Post by: Bruce Colvin on March 16, 2007, 09:17:44 AM

And another whole new species is born.

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Post by: Kin Lau on March 16, 2007, 12:05:40 PM

Or a partial albino American Black Duck. A size would really help to ID.
If it's larger than the typical Mallard or ABD, then it's likely a domestic mix.

Title: Thanks
Post by: Canoncan on March 17, 2007, 10:04:31 PM

Thanks guys, size was the same as the mallard females it was with.

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Post by: Bruce Colvin on March 18, 2007, 01:25:17 PM

Mallards are not at all picky who they choose as a mate. Almost any odd duck you find is the product of a Mallard meeting a new friend of any sort. They just won't stay close to home. Always out on the town.