This winter plumage is called “eclipse” – an expression I like very much. “Eclipse” means to “cover or hide something,” or “deprive something of brightness,” and of course is also used in the case of ...

Our nesting Mallard hen brought her family out of the weeds yesterday. She has a duckling of very unusual plumage. An Internet search produced illustrations of similar birds referred to as 'blonde ...

The plumage of an adult male mallard is absolutely spectacular. An iridescent metallic-green head that can shift from green to blue in the proper light would itself be enough to qualify the duck as ...

Winter Plumage. By Nat Ross. published 30 March 2006. At one point in my life, when I was teaching High School, I had the opportunity to teach several ...

Here's how to prepare for winter visitors. Story by Gary Clark, Kathy Adams Clark, correspondents ... Juvenile songbirds now acquiring adult plumage leave parental grounds to find new homes.

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A mallard duck is featured on the newest U.S. Postal Service stamped card, available today. The card features a drake in his breeding plumage. The stamp ...

This mallard’s genetic makeup consisted of 71 percent wild genes and 29 percent farm-raised genes—right on the threshold of where birds stop ... It also featured very light-gray plumage.

A drake mallard/pintail hybrid is a magnificently beautiful bird, its plumage a seeming 50/50 mix of the best of both parents. The head is a mix of pintail chocolate and mallard emerald with the ...

The mallard hen is equally exquisite, but in a much less obtrusive way. She's smaller than her mate; and her variegated plumage is mostly brown, ...

Using isotope analysis on the blood samples, Spivey found human handouts make up 85 percent of an urban mallard's diet by late winter. A natural diet for mallards includes seeds and berries, ...

The male mallard may be much loved for his colourful plumage but he’s a force to be reckoned with on the duck pond. Newsletter Newsletter (Image credit: Paul Hobson/FLPA) ... Selectively bred for the ...