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The male mallard is very colourful.it has a bottle green head and neck & a soft brown/grey body.

The female is less colourful with a black streaked brown body. These colours help to camouflage her when she is sitting on her nest among reeds.like all dabbling ducks mallard feed by

Running their beaks through soft mud or upending to take vegetation from the bottom of pools rivers & lakes. We captured a male mallard on video as it swam past the school now is good time

Young mallard ducklings

Mallard by Conor

Female mallard

Male mallard.