https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/11/23/what-the-duck/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/11/23/what-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-1897782 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:02:11 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=77190#comment-1897782 Hi Artie! From your description maybe it should be called the Gadwall Frankstien mix (pronounced the Gene Wilder way, Franhk-en-steen).
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]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/11/23/what-the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-1897777 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:18:14 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=77190#comment-1897777 I think you’ve got it with Gadwall x Mallard, aka Brewer’s Duck. Hybrid ducks can be quite variable in trait expression. Some of these show a darker bill more reminiscent of Gadwall, while give more of the yellowish male Mallard type seen in yours. Other traits like your cheek color/pattern could just be ancestral phenotypes getting displayed. You can see lots of varying expressions of this combo here: https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=x00420

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