Mallard Duck Close Up Photograph by Janette Boyd

Mallard Duck Close Up

by Janette Boyd

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Title

Mallard Duck Close Up

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Photograph - Photo/texture

Description

Photo taken of Mallard at Swan Lake located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Texture courtesy of FAA Artist, Pamela Phelps.
http://pinesingerimages.zenfolio.com/

Featured in the following FAA Groups:
*The World We See
*Beauty
*Wildlife One a Day
*Weekly Fun for All
*ABC Group
*Photo R Us

Size & Shape
Mallards are large ducks with hefty bodies, rounded heads, and wide, flat bills. Like many dabbling ducks, the body is long and the tail rides high out of the water, giving a blunt shape. In flight their wings are broad and set back toward the rear.

Color Pattern
Male Mallards have a dark, iridescent-green head and bright yellow bill. The gray body is sandwiched between a brown breast and black rear. Females and juveniles are mottled brown with orange-and-brown bills. Both sexes have a white-bordered, blue speculum patch in the wing.

Behavior
Mallards are dabbling ducks and they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants. They almost never dive. They can be very tame ducks especially in city ponds, and often group together with other Mallards and other species of dabbling ducks.

Habitat
Mallards can live in almost any wetland habitat, natural or artificial. Look for them on lakes, ponds, marshes, rivers, and coastal habitats, as well as city and suburban parks and residential backyards.