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Female Mallard

Gnesta, Sweden.

 

Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard / Ánade real)

 

The mallard is the world’s most widespread duck and a model species in many biological research areas. It is also an economical important game species with a yearly hunting bag of 4.5million ducks in Europe alone.

 

The mallard is the most common and numerous duck in Sweden. The overall size of the breeding population in Sweden is about 200.000 pairs.

 

Pär Söderquist: "Ecological and genetic consequences of introductions of native species: the mallard as a model system"

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Uploaded on December 13, 2018
Taken on July 12, 2018