Hens wear a coat of black-tipped brown feathers with an orange/black bill. Mallards range in size from 2 to 3 pounds, although some drakes get bigger. The mallard hen makes the classic “quack ...

Both species are beautiful birds in the late season, though this particular hybrid looks a bit drab. It took on the body characteristics and coloring of a gadwall, while the head and bill resemble a ...

Spot-billed ducks nest on the ground, hidden in thick vegetation. Breeding is from July to September, and females lay eight to 14 eggs. A female being followed by a fleet of chicks is a common sight.

Andrew’s Point, Rockport: Common Eider, Harlequin Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Loon, Common Loon, Black-legged Kittiwake, Thick-billed Murre Eastern Avenue, Essex : Great Horned Owl ...

Grab your binoculars and take a 'quack' at correctly identifying two commonly confused ducks: the redhead vs canvasback.

New Hampshire Seacoast: Black-headed Gull, Lesser Scaup, Black-bellied Plover, Jaeger species, Dovekie Salisbury Beach State Reservation: Merlin, Red Crossbill, Long-eared Owl, Great Horned Owl ...

It flew like a mallard and looked like a mallard or a black duck, so I had a feeling maybe it was a farm-duck mixed mallard. I picked up the black duck and came back and picked up the [white] duck.” ...

Duck hunter Mike Wec thought he had possibly shot a game-farm mallard hybrid in Massachusetts last season. Now, genetic testing has revealed it was a 100 percent leucistic American Black Duck.