Mallard: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	wild mallard • wild duck • Anas platyrhynchos

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Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos).

A mallard drake (Anas platyrhynchos); the water reflects the fall foliage from trees along the lake's bank.

Female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

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