Mallard Duck

Description:

The breeding male is unmistakable, with a bright bottle-green head, black rear end and a yellowish orange bill tipped with black (as opposed to the black/orange bill in females). It has a white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The dark tail has white borders.

Habitat:

The Mallard is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere, North America from southern and central Alaska to Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, and across Eurasia, from Iceland and southern Greenland and parts of Morocco (North Africa) in the west, Scandinavia to the north, and to Siberia, Japan, and China in the east.

Notes:

This series of shots was taken at the beginning of the Mallard Mating Season. This pair of males went at it in a battle royal. I have seen other animals fight for the right to mate, but this was the first time, I thought that one of those fighting actually wanted to kill the other. It appeared to me that one was trying very hard to drown the other, and attempted this more then one time. The photos appear in chronological order as captured.