Australian Call Duck

My understanding when I read of these a few yrs ago is they were wild mallards from a flock of wild mallards which had genetic mutations resulting in various colours

but genetically they were wild mallards, not at all like british or us call ducks. Ie they have the mallard body shape, not the slightly plumper looking call duck shape, and also have a longer beak, in the wild mallards shape.

i made contact a few years app with someone who was part of a group interested in the call ducks as described above, but got busy and didn't get back to them.

I had what I believe is a wild mallard with as genetic mutation resulting in white feathers and blue eyes, but NOT a Pekin Hybrid. She hatched from two wild mallard parents and all her siblings were normal mallard colors except a Drake who had lighter color than usual....Not the copper you see in many hybrids but a larger percentage of white feathers while still having the mallard color patterns.

Anyway the next two years she hatched normal mallard colored ducklings and a couple of ducklings with this lighter mallard color. And the ducklings with lighter mallard colors were not lighter like copper or a light brown, but more whites and a pale but cool but ashy version of the normal mallard plumage.
I've not seen it anywhere else in any photos of ducks or in any other ducks. And I've seen and had hybrids and none have had this colour either.

Anyway this last spring she hooked up with ones of these drake's with what I believe is the same genetic mutation, and she hatched I think it was 8 ducklings. All small mallard size. 2 were normal mallard color and size and 6 were yellow and also much smaller than a Perkin, white runner or hybrid.

They all grew up as wild mallard sized ducks with the same stance and shape as wild mallards (standing more so the torso was parallel to the ground - not more upright like most domestics).
All are now about 8 months old and the same size and body shape as any other wild mallard and can fly like them. I don't mean that they can fly a little like some hybrids or smaller domestics can, ie get off the ground a metre or 2 and fly a few metres, but that they could lift straight up if the ground almost at 90 degree angle and then fly fast and high, just like any other wild mallard.
The girls also sound like any other wild mallard with a higher pitched call. I have some hybrids and they and my domestics look and sound different to these lil guys.

I also had some more pure white flying mallards ducks hatched by ducks which had the paler coloring that I think came from the children or grandchildren of the same 2 ducks that originally hatched from the two wild mallards.

I have a large flock of domestic and mallards and have noticed that regardless of whether they were raised with domestic or wild siblings, that most as adults, sooner or later, will group up with other domestics if domestic or with other wild ducks if wild. And all these little white mallards hang out with my wild mallards (I have a number of rescued wild mallards who just never left home) and while they are all one flock, within the flock there is a definite wild duck and domestic duck separation, like everyone knows what type of duck they are even if raised with the other type, and all of these little white mallards (as I believe then to be) are 100% members of the wild duck group, they also seem to be accepted as wild mallards by the normally colored wild mallards.

So hoping someone can put me back in touch with the people in Australia who have been documenting and following these colored wild mallards, as I'd like to find out if I can, whether my ducks are wild mallards with a genetic mutation on feather colors.... as opposed to very small hybrids, which I don't think they are but want to find out for sure if possible.

Attached photo is not one of mine as I don't have one on this device, but it's a photo of a duck the same size, shape, etc as the ones I have.

It may as well be a photo of one of my white mallards... I have 9 that are like this, as small as a wild mallard and can fly just like a wild mallard and have the same teardrop shake and body stance... Plus a lot of mallards with a paler feather color but still the same definition of the color in the mallard feather pattern on each feather, not like hybrids. If anyone has any info on genetic color mutations in wild mallards which are not due to hybridization and wants me to take some photos of mine I can do than, just ask.