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Anas platyrhynchos
Spotted on the pack-iced river Elbe, the male birds have a bright green or blue head, while the female's is light brown.
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. The Mallard lives in wetlands, eats water plants, and is gregarious.
Spotted on Feb 8, 2012
Submitted on Feb 8, 2012
5 Comments
I agree with Liam. Ducliar...which is basically a Mallard/Domestic Duck hybrid. They can yield some pretty interesting combinations on a bird.
The first one is the Duclair breed of Mallard.
Hans, i am a not-knowing-birds-moron :) no idea on the seagulls (that I knew ;))...sry.
Daniele: Yes, the first male seems to be a hybrid/mix...but I think i read/heard soimewhere that mallards (and ducks/geese in general) tend to cross themselves with different species by accident...dunno if this is scientificly confimed, though
Great Series. Remembers me to the Danube (looks quite the same here). Waht do you think, wich gulls are around them? Great the see this "society of birds"
Great Lars! These guys have temporarily lost their habitat. :-( I would say the male on the first shot has a touch of hybrid with the domestic mallard version... I see quite a lot of these around my place.