Tag: male mallard duck

With sunlight ready to colour them, two pairs of Mallard Ducks trying to move away from my constant gaze of my camera lens. Belonging to the Anatidae family, these ducks migrate to many wetlands in Delhi NCR region as well during the winters. Sanjay Lake in east Delhi has a good number of mallards every winter. The bill of a female mallard is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe. The mallards are omnivorous and very flexible in their food choice. Here one female mallard looking for some food in the water. Male mallard has a bottle-green head...