to claim that a bird is something and to sell them or promote them under the false name when they are mixed breed is the illegal part.
also i find it really annoying because i raise black mallards 100 % mallard blood no other type of ducks mixed into them. and then i see people who claim to have the same thing i ask about bloodline and they say call duck and then i say that they need to change their advertising because they are selling birds under the wrong name.
Buffgooseguy, i never heard of a black mallard before you claimed you had one, and according to the photo she isnt racy enough to be pure strain wild mallard type, her bill isn't long enough. In addition to raising mallards for 50 years, I'v also been a duck hunter on the Pacific Flyway for 50 years and have shot, cleaned and ate hundreds of wild mallards, i know what they look like.