The Quack Shack

[Canadian Wind]

@Pyxis - This evening the Mallard drakes were busy beating the poop out of each other, so i could snatch this picture below:

The drake at the left has a dark brown head and a very light gray belly, even the other two have different colours on their bellies. Is that just normal variation?

Time to catch yourself some mallards and do some experimental breeding!

 

[Pyxis]

@Pyxis - This evening the Mallard drakes were busy beating the poop out of each other, so i could snatch this picture below:

The drake at the left has a dark brown head and a very light gray belly, even the other two have different colours on their bellies. Is that just normal variation?

I think he's likely just normal gray mallard, though he might be starting to molt into eclipse plumage, which can cause kind of a darker look to the green head as it happens.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I think he's likely just normal gray mallard, though he might be starting to molt into eclipse plumage, which can cause kind of a darker look to the green head as it happens.

He never had that beetle-green head, his head was always brown. They've not yet started to molt, it is still mating season here…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@Magnolia Ducks - Does that face look familiar? (The duck with the green/yellow bill)

She is very camera-shy, but i managed to caught her on a video, eating cat-food:

Does she not look very similar to your duck?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

@Magnolia Ducks - Does that face look familiar? (The duck with the green/yellow bill)

She is very camera-shy, but i managed to caught her on a video, eating cat-food:

Does she not look very similar to your duck?

Yes yes she does look like Brandy.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Time to catch yourself some mallards and do some experimental breeding!

I am like my ducks: I'm not going anywhere near these crazy, hormone spilling savages!
The drakes are fighting and ripping their breast feathers out, all the while making sounds that i have not heart from any drake before. It sounds like a Tasmanian Devil whose were caught in a corrugated fiberboard press.
And the ducks aren't any better, even Ralphie Dux, the Black Swedish Drake, five times the size of a Mallard duck is no match. They jump up, drop on my duck's backs, clamp down on the neck feathers and enjoy the ride…
And when their battles get too heated, they take them to the air! - Yes, Mallards do dog-fights! They're really good in that!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I am like my ducks: I'm not going anywhere near these crazy, hormone spilling savages!
The drakes are fighting and ripping their breast feathers out, all the while making sounds that i have not heart from any drake before. It sounds like a Tasmanian Devil whose were caught in a corrugated fiberboard press.
And the ducks aren't any better, even Ralphie Dux, the Black Swedish Drake, five times the size of a Mallard duck is no match. They jump up, drop on my duck's backs, clamp down on the neck feathers and enjoy the ride…
And when their battles get too heated, they take them to the air! - Yes, Mallards do dog-fights! They're really good in that!

have you encountered a Tassie devil before?

 

[Canadian Wind]

have you encountered a Tassie devil before?

Cute and adorable murder machines that are going extinct because of a facial cancer

 

[Canadian Wind]

Greetings and salutations, everyone. I hope this week is finding you all well so far.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Cute and adorable murder machines that are going extinct because of a facial cancer

Yes, the zoo in my hometown has the best breeding program for them, so well managed visitors are not allowed within 500m of the area. Also they may have stood a chance if the invaders did not wipe them out completely on the main land, though it is rather impressive they could wipe them out on such a big island but not the small one.