Big, hardy, and adaptable: the mallard duck is found all throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite its international range, you can call the mallard America’s duck. Of all duck species, the mallard ...

When you think “duck,” the duck that probably comes to mind (besides Donald Duck) is the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallards are the quintessential duck. They quack like a duck should. They have a ...

Claim to fame: The mallard is most recognized duck species in the world and is an extremely popular species with hunters and bird-watchers alike. In Missouri, as in other parts of the country, ...

As the expression goes, "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." More common throughout the year in southeast Tennessee, the dabbler duck feeds by skimming the ...

Looking for an STD-free mate? Check the color of their bill (if you're a mallard duck, that is). Researchers have found that the brighter a mallard's bill, the more effective their sperm is at killing ...

From Lake Okeechobee to the golf courses of west Boca Raton, urban mallard ducks are crossbreeding with wild mottled ducks. That amorous coupling of city duck with backwoods duck is making state ...