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Graceful Mallard

A Mallard Duck Drake (Anas platyrhynchos)

gets ready to land at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. With over 10 million mallards residing in North America alone, the Mallards are one of the best-known and most recognizable ducks. the mallard is a dabbling duck found throughout temperate and sub-tropical areas around the world. The most abundant and wide-ranging duck on earth. The mallard usually inhabits the freshwaters of North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. Mallards usually feed on plants, such as grass seeds, leaves, stems, and aquatic plants, and vegetation like grains, rice, oats, and corn. However, they are also seen feeding on insects, mollusks, small fish, tadpoles, freshwater snails, fish eggs, frogs, and crustaceans.

 

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Uploaded on January 5, 2020
Taken on January 4, 2020