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anas platyrhynchos
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Mallard
Abundant and widespread across the northern hemisphere, this is a female with a newly hatched brood. Waterfowl chicks are precocial, covered with down feathers, eyes open and feeding themselves immediately after hatching. Most birds have altricial young, hatched blind, naked, totally helpless...- jmorlan
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- anas platyrhynchos california mallard usa
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- Category: North America
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Mallard in snow
They don't seem to mind the cold or the snow. Ice, however, can be a mobility issue for them. I got a silly little video of Wigeons and Crows skidding about on the ice when it got even colder and the river froze.- Doc Duck
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Mallard on flooded grass
Mallard Duck enjoying flooded grass- PerryProductions
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- anas platyrhynchos duck flood garden mallad
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Rather monotone
The colour of the water didn't really strike me at the time, I just thought it was nice looking at the two Mallard swimming across the loch. End of November did seem rather early to be pairing up though LOL- delia todd
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- 2023 anas platyrhynchos angus kinnordy rspb reserve kirriemuir mallard mallard male and female nikon coolpix p900 november scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Team Mallard
A team water landing. I like how they splash forwards and backwards.- MelospizaMelodiaFan
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard
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- Category: North America
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Common and neglected.....Mallard
Autumn colours in a lake- Digiscoper321
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard west sweden
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Mallard
A Mallard couple dabbling in a nearby river. That's not snow or ice near the shore, that's foam whipped up by the swiftly running water.- wonderview
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- anas platyrhynchos
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- Category: North America
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Mallard
- Digiscoper321
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard west sweden
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Still before breakfast
Also out for a wander was a female Mallard with her two ducklings. Still very young too.- delia todd
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- 2019 anas platyrhynchos australia mallard mannum nikon coolpix p900 november south australia
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Male Wood Duck dating female Mallard (since no female Wood Ducks around anyway!)- WRL
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- aix sponsa anas platyrhynchos mallard wood duck
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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I´am walking ...
The almost transparent dot, not a dust spot, at the tip of its beak, is called "nail". https://www.bird.bot/post/duck-bill#:~:text=The%20nail%20is%20a%20small%20bump%20on%20the,or%20shape%20that%20can%20help%20identify%20the%20duck. In adult males is it black. Females show a dark grey nail.- jbpixels
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard munich
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Having a wander
I made the long journey down to stay with my brother and his wife in South Wales (we were going to my nephew's wedding in Sussex as part of my trip). Anyway, close beside my brother's house is the Brecon Canal and I did a short walk along it one day. There was a family of Mallards who'd come...- delia todd
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- 2023 abergavenny anas platyrhynchos govilon june mallard monmouthshire nikon coolpix p900 wales
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Mallard chicks (Anas platyrhynchos)
A brood of Mallard chicks (Anas platyrhynchos) just come out of the nest in the woods and are accompanied by their mother in the water with care and then disappear into a dense and hidden point on the shore !!!- Ornitomania
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- anas platyrhynchos anas platyrhynchos chicks anas platyrhynchos mallard anatroccoli ducklings ducklings cute mallard cross germano germano reale mallard mallard chicks mallard chicks family video
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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A male multi-tasking????
My friend and I spent an extended lunch break at my old patch "Up the Hill" on Sunday, quite a bit to be seen but this was a record shot taken through the windscreen of a couple of Mallards. It wasn't until I downloaded the pictures that I realised one was scratching his neck. A bit of...- delia todd
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- 2019 anas platyrhynchos april blairgowrie drimmie mallard nikon coolpix p900 perthshire saturday fun scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Inching forward foot by foot. Mallard
- Digiscoper321
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard west sweden
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Forager
Early January, we decided to go on a long ignored Loch of the Lowes, seemed to stop going there since the start of Covid. Also my friend wanted to try a monocular due to his failing sight. He managed to test it out first, through the window at the feeding station. A Mallard came through...- delia todd
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- 2023 anas platyrhynchos dunkeld january loch of the lowes mallard nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Putative Intersex Mallard
- Cristian Mihai
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- anas platyrhynchos intersex mallard rata mare
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Mallard
- Cristian Mihai
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- anas platyrhynchos mallard rata mare
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Northern Mallard
Northern Mallard. Adult male. Probably a hybrid. This loner was hanging around with some Pacific Black Ducks, a species they commonly cross-breed with.- thunor
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- anas platyrhynchos northern mallard
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
