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Is this a moulting Mallard?

F.R. · 2011-09-20 21:31:58

Or maybe it's a juvenile. The pale colour is really what makes me question the id. The absence of the speculum makes me think moulting.

20-09-2011 9:31pm

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Or maybe it's a juvenile. The pale colour is really what makes me question the id. The absence of the speculum makes me think moulting.

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#2 20-09-2011 9:35pm

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No idea about your question, but....is that duck posing and smiling in the first shot!? :eek::)

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#3 20-09-2011 9:39pm

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I think it's more a puzzled look trying to figure out what I was finding so interesting.

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#4 21-09-2011 11:38pm

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Definitely abnormally pale.

With mallards, you never know what they or their ancestors have been 'dating', so farmyard fowl genes are always possible.

That or 'leucism' - a deficiency of pigment, but I think its an ordinary Mallard besides

LC

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