Muddy Mallard
by Kathy Kelly
Title
Muddy Mallard
Artist
Kathy Kelly
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This photography by Kathy Kelly is of a female Mallard foraging through the mud for seeds, stems, and roots.
Unlike their colorful male counterparts, female mallards have a mottled brownish color and a violet speculum bordered by black and white. The crown of the head is dark brown with a dark brown stripe running through the eye.
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.
This piece has been featured in the following FAA groups:
Poetic Poultry
Coastal Water Birds-shore Birds
Lady Photographers and Artists
Uploaded
June 19th, 2016
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Comments (5)
Kathy Kelly
Many thanks to Karen Silvestri for featuring my piece "Muddy Mallard" on the homepage of "Lady Photographers and Artists." I greatly appreciate it!
Anita Faye
She's a muddy beauty Kathy ;) Featured on Poetic Poultry! http://fineartamerica.com/groups/poetic-poultry-.html