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Mallard ducks

Anas platyrhynchos

Photo by staccyh
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Field Notes

Description:

You can spot these ducks all year round in the UK. They eat seeds, acorns, berries, plants, insects and shellfish.

Habitat:

From the RSPB website:
Where to see them - It is the commonest duck and most widespread so you have a chance of seeing it just about anywhere where there is suitable wetland habitat, even in urban areas. I took these photos at the beach on Cramond Isle (photo 1), St Mararet's Loch (photo 2) which is near the Holyrood palace in Edinburgh and is home to many ducks, geese and swans and in the Kelvin River in Glasgow (photo 3).

Notes:

The third photo was taken in Glasgow (Botanic Gardens) and you can see the characteristic blue band on the female's wing.

Reference Links:

The RSPB: Mallard

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
DanielePralong
Thanks! You have started a very nice collection. You may want to join and add your spottings to this Scotland mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/12223034 Welcome again!
staccyh
Thanks Daniele! Yes I will, I just got a bit carried away yesterday with adding some of my photo's :) I will try and update all of them today.
DanielePralong
Hi staccyh, and welcome to Project Noah! Nice images! Where you do know the ID of the species in your spotting, please take the time to Google up the scientific name and add it.This allows your spottings to leave the Unidentified list and become properly integrated into the Project Noah data base. Thanks, and welcome again!

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