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01-02-2008, 03:59 PM
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| |  DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
havn't got images uploaded yet cos i'm on laptop n PC's being fixed, so i'm gonna describe it...
It's approx similar shape & size to a mallard; has black body & beak (no grey), a white 'bib' on breast - like Blue Swedish markings.. thought that was what it was at first, but this has a dark green head too...... (not sure if it's a difference between gender or just age but the size of the white part on its breast varied between certain birds)... Oh and they wer in a group of about 8-10 individuals.
Plz help!
Thanx!
Lea. x |
01-02-2008, 04:08 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
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Originally Posted by ~NikkiDaniels~  havn't got images uploaded yet cos i'm on laptop n PC's being fixed, so i'm gonna describe it...
It's approx similar shape & size to a mallard; has black body & beak (no grey), a white 'bib' on breast - like Blue Swedish markings.. thought that was what it was at first, but this has a dark green head too...... (not sure if it's a difference between gender or just age but the size of the white part on its breast varied between certain birds)... Oh and they wer in a group of about 8-10 individuals.
Plz help!
Thanx!
Lea. x | Sounds like mallards crossed with Aylesburys but hard to tell without a pic - that would be my guess anyway!
Pauline |
01-02-2008, 04:19 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
Does sound like a mallard crossed with a domestic. |
01-02-2008, 04:33 PM
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| |  Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
cheers... i'll try to get a pic asap x |
01-02-2008, 05:09 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
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01-02-2008, 05:22 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 | Thanks for that site, Tursiops, I have always wanted to know what those white ducks are. Now I know. I never have been good at duck identification.
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01-02-2008, 06:06 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
Mallards domestics and crosses can indeed be beautiful 
Look at this photo of a young male with just moulted plumage. We had a brood with 2 green ducks male and female in our local park and we kept going back to just look at them! The usual green/purple iridescent mallard color on neck was all over its body. Unfortunately, it disapeared shortly after I took this photo.
has anybody seen another green mallard? |
01-02-2008, 06:10 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
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Originally Posted by Africa Mallards domestics and crosses can indeed be beautiful
Look at this photo of a young male with just moulted plumage. We had a brood with 2 green ducks male and female in our local park and we kept going back to just look at them! The usual green/purple iridescent mallard color on neck was all over its body. Unfortunately, it disapeared shortly after I took this photo.
has anybody seen another green mallard? | have a look on feathersite.com there are a couple of breeds on there that are green/black/purple kind of colour - gorgeous I agree |
01-02-2008, 09:20 PM
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| | | Re: DUCK ID?? (cant find it in the book) - HELP!
got to agree with all the posts
sounds like another mongrel, i think mallards think its still the swinging sixties,free love and all that! | | |
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