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March 05, 2013
Tuesday Teaser 030513
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As first poster said, these are domestic mallards.
Posted by: Jessica Kirste | March 09, 2013 at 08:08 PM
mallard X
Posted by: Mike Kleinknecht | March 08, 2013 at 09:30 PM
Yep, they are Khaki Campbells. They're domestic "pet ducks" that were thrown away. They're meat/egg birds.
Posted by: Jeri Kratina | March 06, 2013 at 07:07 AM
The one at the bottom looks like what I'd expect a Mallard/Gadwall or Mallard/BW teal hybrid to look like. The others look like eclipse or domestic mallards.
Posted by: Ian Garrison | March 05, 2013 at 03:54 PM
More important than this?
Hello....
(Thanks, Rick!)
Posted by: Jim Wright | March 05, 2013 at 01:17 PM
These are Mallards of domestic origin. They're clearly mongrels, but the breed they approach most closely in appearance is called Khaki Campbell, a heavy, beautiful bird greatly valued for its egg production. Even odd-plumaged Mallards like this can be sexed by the shape of the upper tail coverts: flat in females, curled in males.
If Liberty and Jeanie send me their e-mail address, I can send them a copy of my Birder's Guide to the Domestic Mallard, a little book project that is languishing on my desktop while I work on more important things.
Posted by: Rick Wright | March 05, 2013 at 12:00 PM
was something done with the color of the picture? The back birds all look like some for of mallard. The bill looks blue on the female bird, possibly a female pintail?
Posted by: Ray Duffy | March 05, 2013 at 10:53 AM
I'm going to say a female Mallard. All the ducks look like they are a form of domestic Mallard, and that strange one is just a female. Toward the top of the duck, you can still make out some of the female Mallard markings. Or they could be hybrids, or have a genetic mutation, or...
Posted by: Patrick Carney | March 05, 2013 at 10:48 AM