[Shevrolay]

Good friend of mine shot this duck. He believes it is a mallard x black duck. Could it maybe be an intersex mallard? I am no waterfowl expert, just curious what some of you guys think. Awesome bird either way

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[Pasquan]

Do you have any pictures in better light? Good looking duck either way congrats

 

[Shevrolay]

Do you have any pictures in better light? Good looking duck either way congrats

These are the only pics I have right now


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[Carpenter Bill]

Need to check the tail feathers, could be a late hatch bird. Shi kid may know.

 

[stacemo]

It could be a Brewers duck. Gadwall Mallard cross

 

[Far Beyond Driven]

Also sometimes hybrids breed so you get a 25% mix and not a 50%.

 

[Shiawassee_Kid]

mallard

 

[lefty421]

mallard

I'd say mallard too, because of the white bars on the wings.

Doesn't a true black duck have black bars?

 

[Ieatshrooms]

I must be missing something...what part of the duck doesn't look like a mallard?

 

[Shiawassee_Kid]

I must be missing something...what part of the duck doesn't look like a mallard?

just dirty chin and chest/butt not grown in yet. can throw people off some i guess.

 

[AaronJohn]

I'm no expert but that's a young mallard, if I shot it I'd have recognized it as a late bloomer.

..for what its worth, I did notice a lot of late hatches this year all over the state; especially geese.

Sometimes all it takes is one cold night to kill some ducklings and the mother goes on a mission to breed again as Most Drakes are DTF.

 

[stacemo]

Mysterious total lack of the white neck ring

 

[Mike L]

Mallard

 

[Ieatshrooms]

Mysterious total lack of the white neck ring

Look up pics of eclipse drakes...about the last thing that comes in is that white ring.

 

[wavie]

Sometimes all it takes is one cold night to kill some ducklings and the mother goes on a mission to breed again as Most Drakes are DTF.

Young drake mallard.

I don't belive it's ever been recorded that at northern latitudes (MI included), that the energy it takes for a female to hatch eggs, a female could have a second clutch. Now down south, it's been recorded that wood ducks can pull off a second clutch if they initiate nesting in February and are successful.

Think about it, a hen lays 10 eggs, incubated for 28 days, 50-60 days to fledged, your looking at 3.5 months. The chances of a hen to aquire energy reserves to pull off a 2nd clutch (ducklings) around here are nil.

 

[biggins]

Good friend of mine shot this duck. He believes it is a mallard x black duck. Could it maybe be an intersex mallard? I am no waterfowl expert, just curious what some of you guys think. Awesome bird either way View attachment 619467 View attachment 619469


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Dead

 

[stacemo]

And tasty!