what kind of duck is this?

[Nick Sanchez]

i cant figure out what this is a mix with. mallard drake/........
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g25/nick_34/100_6847.jpg

[Ielase]

Looks like its got hen feathers on its belly. Thats weird never seen anything like that!

[Lybeck]

looks like a really old mallard hen. When they get old they stop producing I'm not sure what it's called in ducks but in women it's estrogen and in men it's testosterone but the hens stop producing it and they start looking like drakes for the most part.

[steelheadslayer]

It's a drake mallard. I've shot quite a few over the years with the hen belly feathers, it's a hormone type of thing I can't remember exactly what or how right off the top.

[GVGoose]

You've just got yourself a drake mallard...nothing special!

[dahmer]

We shot of few like that this year. It's a drake mallard, late hatch.

[Andrew Bremseth]

Giant Canadian Goose

[takem7]

A dead one?

[goose14]

it's a a a a a a he/she ha ha

[Dustin Andersen]

looks like a really old mallard hen. When they get old they stop producing I'm not sure what it's called in ducks but in women it's estrogen and in men it's testosterone but the hens stop producing it and they start looking like drakes for the most part.


Seriously?????

[lakerwaterfowler]

The only way for sure to identify it as a drake would be to check the speculum and cloaca. For the bird to be a drake it would have to have the top white line on the speculum to not extend past the speculum and with the cloaca you have to push it back to determine if there is a little worm looking thing. But I am sure the bird has already been cleaned.

And yes hen mallards can develope drake plumage once they get past their breed age. Its really no different then women that are post metapaus and start getting facial hair ect.

Also like other have said it could be a hemaphordite.

[Zach White]

I just think that it is an immature mallard drake because it has a yellow bill. We have shot a bunch of them this year, they are ugly that's for sure!

[bps12]

here is one that is kind of the same I shot this year. A guy told me it was a juvinile bird.http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o165/bps12/DSCN0768.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o165/bps12/DSCN0767.jpg

[snowman]

That is a mallard that at one time or still is infected with flukes. Did you open look at the breasts, if they are there they look like white pieces of grain just below the surface. I have seen many mallards like this...

[DK Dogs]

We shot a few this year that were just like that. I dont think it is to uncommon

[Kyle Dotson]

Yup Immature Drake mallard...they may have the green head but they still have the hen body.

[goosehunter64]

looks like a really old mallard hen. When they get old they stop producing I'm not sure what it's called in ducks but in women it's estrogen and in men it's testosterone but the hens stop producing it and they start looking like drakes for the most part.

I'd sure like to have what yer smokin bud...

[derek]

looks like a really old mallard hen. When they get old they stop producing I'm not sure what it's called in ducks but in women it's estrogen and in men it's testosterone but the hens stop producing it and they start looking like drakes for the most part.


He's on the money, but this isn't a case of that. There are hens killed that are plumed out like a drake. These hens would still have a mottled orange bill like a hen would have. Rare, but it happens.