Mallard Madness
by Kathy Kelly
Title
Mallard Madness
Artist
Kathy Kelly
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
This photography by Kathy Kelly is of a Mallard foraging through the mud for seeds, stems, and roots.
Abundant over most of the northern hemisphere, the Mallard is the most familiar wild duck to many people, and the ancestor of most strains of domesticated ducks.
The mallard or wild duck is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru,
Majority of its diet consists of plant material, including seeds, stems, and roots of a vast variety of different plants, especially sedges, grasses, pondweeds, smartweeds, many others; also acorns and other tree seeds, various kinds of waste grain. Also eat insects, crustaceans, mollusks, tadpoles, frogs, earthworms, small fish. Young ducklings may eat mostly aquatic insects.
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June 19th, 2016
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