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Clint Roby
12-12-2007, 08:43 PM
Ever seen anything like this? He looked pretty light colored when I shot him but I was really suprised when Max brought him back. Anybody got any explanations. Pretty unique but pretty ugly.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7581/dsc0006rb2.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7643/dsc0007xw1.jpg
Walt McCord
12-12-2007, 08:47 PM
Actually last year I was with a buddy who killed a greenhead that was solid white expect for on his wings where the blue is, his head was green and his bill was yellow. We were hunting in some green timber and it looked like a snow goose falling in on us!! I would get your duck mounted.

Great job!!
Zach Byron
12-12-2007, 08:49 PM
Yea i agree...I would get that bad boy mounted, I think he may be partially albino...very cool!
PEI Duck Guy
12-12-2007, 09:05 PM
Interesting duck.
dahmer
12-12-2007, 09:08 PM
Awesome looking bird. I would make some room and get it mounted.
kparrott154
12-12-2007, 09:08 PM
Bob "Chappy" Chaplin shot a solid white mallard the other day...
DrakeslayerIllinois
12-12-2007, 09:15 PM
we have ducks like that around my house the mallards must be breeding with the tame ducks the farm next to me holds as many several thousand geese and hundreds of mallards and some stay around and every spring me and my kids see freakazoids when we fish in the summer
Lybeck
12-12-2007, 09:19 PM
thats a snowy mallard it's just a mallard color phase much like the blonde mallards and the white mallards.
Cacklerman
12-12-2007, 09:23 PM
Please tell me you dint clean that!
Are you going to get it mounted?
Travis Loving
12-12-2007, 10:25 PM
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c274/bustinbeaks/aflac_1.jpg
Stephen Pitt
12-13-2007, 08:55 AM
Congrats on the trophy Clint. That Mallard has a genetic mix up, kinda like a piebald deer. I'd get that bird mounted if I were you.
Ben Cade
12-13-2007, 05:08 PM
He he ... You shot the Aflac duck!


Just kidding, I'd send that one to the taxidermist.
Jeff Riverin
12-13-2007, 05:30 PM
As Zach I think he may be partially albino, I killed two duck like that one 3 years ago. One of them is mounted in one of my buddie's living room.
Il Duce
12-15-2007, 01:47 PM
I think what that is ia a leucistic color phase, similar to albino, but albinos lack all pigment, leucistic birds will still have some identifiable color traits, but hey im no biologist, no matter whats going on thats a damn sweet bird
Lybeck
12-15-2007, 01:51 PM
heres a link to some people who breed them.

http://www.phelpswaterfowl.com/Snowy_%20Mallard.htm