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Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Mallard Photo

© Marie Read

One of the most familiar of ducks, the Mallard is found throughout North America and all across Eurasia. Where it does not occur naturally, it often has been introduced. It is found in all kinds of wetlands and is a familiar inhabitant of urban park ponds.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen
  • Female quack
    Recorded by William W. Gunn
    Alberta, CanadaMay 1976
  • Female decrescendo call
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen
    New York March 1956
  • Female quack in flight
    Recorded by Gregory F. Budney
    New York April 1995
  • Male courtship calls
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen
    New York March 1956
  • Male courtship calls
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen
    New York March 1956
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Female gives loud series of quacks. Male makes softer, rasping "rab," also a grunt and whistle during display. Wings whistle in flight.

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