check out the speckled feet, the white throat patch, the totally bronze underside, any ideas? i've heard some say it might be a shoveler/mallard drake hybrid.

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Looks like a really old mallard hen. I've heard once they get a certain age they start taking on male colors. I could be wrong though.

Not sure , but it would go on my wall

Johnch

i'm planning on getting him mounted, fully cupped and locked up, head upright. like this link

http://www.waterfowler.net/Artistic/images/2005/Cupped_Mallard_sm.jpg

Thats pretty strange. I don't think its a hybrid. I think its 100% mallard. But, sort of like you see white labs, yellow labs, and red labs, I think this bird probably has some sort of disorder or mutation that has effected his pigmentation. The beak is mallard drake (full plume) so is the head.

The real kicker is the speculum on the wing. It should be blue and white in full plumage, but it looks more like the wing of a ringneck hen. I think he has the measles or something like that.

I think I can enlighten you guys again. I have seen many of this type of mallard hybrid and have them show up every once in a while. It is a mallard crossed with a Black East Indies duck. The black east Indies is a tame sport if you will. It is a totally melanistic mutation of a common mallard that breeds true to color . When bred back to a pure mallard they usually are blackwith white splotches on neck and throat. If you cross the first offspring back to a mallard again then you get the green head on the drake with rusty brown sides and belly. The Black East Indies is a tame duck that is bred for show or novelty.

I agree I beleive the Duck you are speaking of is called an Indian Runner.

wow cool, I'd definately mount it. I think it is a shoveler/mallard hybrid too.

Thats why you are here sir. Keep everyone guessing, then let us know how it really is! So this is one of those barnyard breeders?

If it is a duck that is a hybrid desendantof a black east indies duck, would you then not get it mounted? I shot this duck on public ground, it came in with 2 other mallards, a drake and hen pair with normal colors, I shot this one because of it's unique plumage. How could you know for sure what this duck is crossed with, is thier no way that it could be any other hybrid combination?This duck was thinin body size the exact same asany other mallard duck I have taken, not fat like a duck that has been waddling around a farm eating handout corn all summer, like a domestic "barnyard duck".

It was a really neat experience shooting this duck, public ground, windy, drizzling morning, this duck with the other 2 he was with circled twice, came right back to my calling, I shot him perfect with one shot at about 30 yards, I was really looking forward to getting this bird mounted, would any of you still take him to the taxidermist?