Magnificent Mallard
by Peggy Franz
Title
Magnificent Mallard
Artist
Peggy Franz
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This magnificent mallard duck is so beautiful. I captured this at Castlewood State park located in Missouri. The metallic green on his head was so bright with sun shinning on it.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks."Mallard" is derived from the Old French malart or mallart "wild drake", although its ultimate derivation is unclear. It may be related to an Old High German masculine proper name Madelhart, clues lying in the alternate English forms "maudelard" or "mawdelard".
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October 22nd, 2012
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Peggy, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations Peggy, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"! I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Michelle Bergersen
Gorgeous shot. The head of this malard just shines. It is not often you capture that one film though you see it in flashes as you watch them swim. Nice shot.
Lois Bryan
Gorgeous ... lovely expression ... he looks so coy!!! These guys are usually pretty skittish so a profile portrait couldn't have been easy ... I love this!!!! f/v
Peggy Franz replied:
Thank you so much!! They are skittish :) pretzels and patience . Thank you again
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