MALLARD GALLERY
(Anas platyrhynchos)

eBird offers this description of the Mallard:  The quintessential duck within most of its range, found anywhere with water, including city parks, backyard creeks, and various wetland habitats.  Males have a green head, yellow bill, white necklace, chestnut breast, and gray body. Black central tail feathers of male curl upward.  White wingbars on the front and trailing sides of the blue wing patch are bolder compared to those on American Black Duck and Mottled Duck.  Females are mottled brown with orange and black splotches on the bill.  Males do not take part in raising ducklings. Will return to place of birth.

I have not seen Mallards at my lake yet, but have seen and photographed them in Landa Park in New Braunfels.

A male Mallard, in the Comal River at Landa Park, New Braunfels, Texas, April 18, 2020.
A pair of male Mallards at Landa Park, April 18, 2020.
A young female Mallard at Landa Park, April 18, 2020.
An odd couple. Is the one out front a non-breeding male Mallard? Landa Park, April 18,2020.
Two Mallards paddle by as a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron looks on. Landa Park, April 18, 2020.