Author Topic: Odd looking Drake mallard (Read 6795 times)

ducksdogsdownriggers · « **on:** January 22, 2019, 09:28:00 AM »

Picked up this "guy" over the weekend. Feel like I've read something about this before, but can't find any info. Any thoughts?

Goldeneye · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2019, 10:03:20 AM »

Eclipse plumage.

bornhunter · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2019, 10:30:42 AM »

Cross dresser

daddysprad · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2019, 10:50:50 AM »

Mom was a pintail.

plugger · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2019, 03:14:43 PM »

killed a few like that over the years, we call the hen drakes, but I like the cross dresser comment. Might have to use that.

bucksnort · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2019, 03:18:20 PM »

don't ask don't tell

crazywednesday · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2019, 04:19:01 PM »

Transgender

Its in transition. Next will be sexual reassignment surgery.

Blacktail135 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2019, 07:13:48 PM »

Don't "mount" it!!!!!!

AWS · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2019, 08:52:09 AM »

It's kind of a "Left Coast" thing.

DOUBLELUNG · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2019, 09:27:59 AM »

Used to call them hermaphrodites, I guess intersex is the preferred lingo now. Unusual to see a full green head on one, usually just the top and back of the head. When I was growing up in New England mallard x black duck hybrids were pretty common, I don't expect that is what that is on this coast though.

jagermiester · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2019, 10:01:29 AM »

That is cool. Could you tell if it had meat and potatoes??

outdooraddict · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2019, 10:04:33 AM »

so do you count that in the drake limit or the hen limit, or finish the limit and then decide where you need to count it lol

singleshot12 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2019, 12:16:15 PM »

Quote from: ducksdogsdownriggers on January 22, 2019, 09:28:00 AM

Picked up this "guy"

Did you just assume it's gender?

I've been seeing more of these types of ducks out there. There could be some truth to the fact that maybe "the water is turning the frogs gay"

npaull · « **Reply #13 on:** January 24, 2019, 01:40:40 PM »

I wonder if it's a genetic chimera:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Notice how there's that patch on the left breast that has male-type plumage, and then a sharp border into female-type plumage. Makes me think it may be composed of totally different cell lines. It's a pretty cool phenomenon, read the wiki article.

curtdiesel · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2019, 04:54:37 PM »

That is a lot more interesting looking than all of the Eclipse drakes I see people posting pictures of

Parasite · « **Reply #15 on:** February 26, 2019, 08:31:58 AM »

California millennial duck.

AL WORRELLS KID · « **Reply #16 on:** May 26, 2019, 06:23:50 PM »

Ugly Duckling?

Doug

kodiak 907 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2019, 08:32:23 PM »

Bruce Jenner

dilleytech · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2019, 11:08:45 AM »

Isn’t this an example of a very old hen, or is it drake mallard where they are so old there hormones change as does there feathers?

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