Mallard Gallery

Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, and red-breasted

Scrubfowl (orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt?) and Cape francolin, Pternistis capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

The mallard is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas

The mallard is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa

© Richard Wright / Danita Delimont

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Male Gadwall attempting to mate with female Mallard

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