Mallard Life History - All About Birds
Perhaps the most familiar of all ducks, Mallards occur throughout North America and Eurasia in ponds and parks as well as wilder wetlands and estuaries. The male’s gleaming green head, gray flanks, and black tail-curl arguably make it the most easily identified duck.
Mallard Duck - Description, Habitat, Image, Diet, and Interesting …
Mallards are incredible survivors, and can adapt to a wide range of habitats. They can be found from Arctic tundra habitat, to man-made water bodies. They inhabit both fresh and saltwater wetlands, lakes, rivers, streams, inlets, and estuaries.
Mallard | Audubon Field Guide
Abundant over most of the northern hemisphere, the Mallard is the most familiar wild duck to many people, and the ancestor of most strains of domesticated ducks. In many places this species has managed to domesticate itself, relying on handouts in city parks.
Mallard Duck - Facts, Habitat, Diet, Color, Lifespan & Pictures
They inhabit natural, artificial, brackish, and freshwater wetlands, including marshes, swamps, lakes, bays, and ponds, with large amounts of floating, submerged, and riparian vegetation. Mallards are omnivores that consume a wide variety of foods.
Mallard - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and prefer to congregate in flocks of varying sizes. Unlike many waterfowl, mallards are considered an invasive species in some regions.
Mallard - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, is a medium to large dabbling duck and is the most abundant duck species in North America. This species is found in all flyways and in almost any freshwater habitat. The mallard drake is often called a "greenhead" due …
Mallard Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Perhaps the most familiar of all ducks, Mallards occur throughout North America and Eurasia in ponds and parks as well as wilder wetlands and estuaries. The male’s gleaming green head, gray flanks, and black tail-curl arguably make it the most easily identified duck.
Mallard - National Geographic
In fact, the mallard is thought to be the most abundant and wide-ranging duck on Earth. Mallards prefer calm, shallow sanctuaries, but can be found in almost any body of freshwater across Asia,...
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Mallards are one of the first ducks to arrive back on the breeding grounds in spring. They are adaptable and may nest near a lake, pond, river, or even woodland pool. Their preferred habitats, however, are the natural grasslands that surround little reed-ringed sloughs, or marshy areas, and potholes on the prairies.
Definitive Guide To Mallard Facts, Habitat, Conservation Status, …
Mallards are one of the most widespread duck species, native across much of the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Their natural habitats include wetlands like lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes, and coastal habitats. They prefer shallow freshwater environments rich in aquatic vegetation and small invertebrates.