Need help to ID this duck | Adelaide - South Australia (1 Viewer)

[Inhame]

Hi guys, I was walking at Adelaide Botanic Garden this afternoon and I noticed this duck. It looks like a Pacific black duck (in fact it always was walking around with another pacific black duck) or a Mallard but its plumage color is different. Any idea what kind of duck is it? is it a hybrid or even an albino pacific black duck?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Butty]

Welcome to BF.
It's a domestic duck.

 

[MJB]

Hi guys, I was walking at Adelaide Botanic Garden this afternoon and I noticed this duck. It looks like a Pacific black duck (in fact it always was walking around with another pacific black duck) or a Mallard but its plumage color is different. Any idea what kind of duck is it? is it a hybrid or even an albino pacific black duck?

Thanks in advance!

Likely it's a cross (somewhere along the line) with a Mallard/Pacific Duck and a domestic duck...
MJB

 

[01101001]

Hello and welcome to the forum! I'm glad you joined.

 

[stevethehydra]

Both birds here are Pacific Black Duck x Mallard hybrids. Pure Mallard females can show a similar-ish (less strong/definite) face pattern, but the eye stripes here are clearly intermediate between the full double stripe of a pure PBD and what could be expected from a strongly patterned female Mallard. The pale bird is some form of leucistic, which is more likely than not due to domestic breed ancestry on the Mallard side, but it definitely has PBD genes in it.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

Both birds here are Pacific Black Duck x Mallard hybrids. Pure Mallard females can show a similar-ish (less strong/definite) face pattern, but the eye stripes here are clearly intermediate between the full double stripe of a pure PBD and what could be expected from a strongly patterned female Mallard. The pale bird is some form of leucistic, which is more likely than not due to domestic breed ancestry on the Mallard side, but it definitely has PBD genes in it.

agree- both ducks are hybrids PBD x mallard (though not necessarily first generation )
also feet are much too orange for PBD in the wild colored bird

 

[Inhame]

Thank you so much guys for helping me! You guys are very kind!
Im learning so much here at BF.

Cheers!