“It looked like a hen mallard or a hen black duck ... Leucistic ducks retain normal eye color and vision (unlike albino birds). Previously hunters and even researchers have only speculated that ducks ...

The wing has a large purplish-blue speculum (wing patch) that is edged in white. The Mallard hen is a mixture of brown and tan. The head has a white band above the eye and a darker band below the ...

A drake competes with other males for the mating privileges of a mallard hen. To impress her, he makes a show of his breeding finery: iridescent green head, white neck ring, chestnut breast and ...

The hen mallard falloff has raised alarms only in recent years in part because the severity of their decline hasn't been highlighted in spring surveys conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Sometimes called "Mallard Factories," these easy to build and install structures give mallard hens a safe place to lay their eggs in the spring, away from increasing numbers of prairie predators ...

Along a marsh at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, Eric Johnson is installing a mallard hen house, courtesy of the Flyway Foundation in South Carolina. "The waterfowlers and duck enthusiasts in ...

The hen mallard falloff has raised alarms only in recent years in part because the severity of their decline hasn't been highlighted in spring surveys conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...