What Does that a Mallard Look Like?

Mallard ducks at UCDavis — in the parking lot!
Photo by Lois Richter.

Mallards are very common ducks. Many are tame, populate parks and other human habitations, and inter-breed with other tame ducks. (Many "puddle ducks" are mallard-x-something hybrids.)

Wild mallards migrate; tame mallards usually don't.

Another photo (by Greg Kearns of the USGS)
of a drake (male) mallard flying, is available at:
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/photo_htm/Images/h1320p2.jpg.

Another photo (by Jim Zingo of the USGS)
of a hen (female) mallard swimming with a young one, is available at:
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/photo_htm/Images/h1320p3.jpg.