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Anas platyrhynchos domesticus
Mallard-sized pair of ducks, assumed male (darker) and female (lighter). Gray heads and necks, yellow-orange beaks, brown/buff chest fading to white further back on the body, but with gray (light gray) tail feathers.
Pond near a volcanic black sand beach, tropical climate (Hawaii).
I've looked on Hawaiian bird sites, and Wikipedia and can't find anything that looks quite like these to identify them. I'm told ducks inter-breed easily, so maybe they're the result of that, but the pair seem so perfectly matched (apparent male/female darker/lighter combination, I thought there might be a specific species for this).
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Domestic Mallards, Anas platyrhynchos. Possibly Saxonys: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks...
Thanks for the info!
They look like a species of hybridized mallard duck. Its pretty common when they're interbreeding with domestic/peking (pekin) ducks.