I need help identifying what kind of duck this is. It doesn’t have the coloring of a female mallard. I checked with the Merlin Photo ID app and that wasn’t able to give me an ID. So I’m hoping someone can ID it for me.
Maralee
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I need help identifying what kind of duck this is. It doesn’t have the coloring of a female mallard. I checked with the Merlin Photo ID app and that wasn’t able to give me an ID. So I’m hoping someone can ID it for me.
Maralee
I think you have the ID right Maralee and she has a degree of albinism. https://www.google.com/search?q=female+albino+mallard&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0pqD_vszTAhVH0WMKHXY2CWIQsAQIJg&biw=1600&bih=770
Thank you so much. It sure looks like that’s what it is.
Could also be some variant of a gadwall? Another possibility is a hybrid. Mallards interbreed with white domestic ducks sometimes. I saw photos once of white-breasted male mallards and that seemed like the most likely explanation.
Could be a hybrid mallard.