One of the park's attractions in my city are the mallard ducks swimming in the calm water of the lake.
They are very noisy but their beautiful colors compensate for the shouting quack.
Male and female ducks usually look very different.
Visit the Mallard family with the new baby ducks settled in our Botanical Garden.
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They are very noisy but their beautiful colors compensate for the shouting quack.
Male and female ducks usually look very different.
This is a female mallard duck. Though, her mottled brown plumage is not as beautiful as the drake's, she still has a white tail and iridescent purple-blue wing feathers that are visible as a patch on her sides.
And this is the male mallard, or drake.
With his green head, white neck ring, chestnut colored breast and yellow bill is the more distinctively colored of the mallards. He also has two dark tail feathers with an upward curl.


Mallard duck grooming itself.
People are feeding bread to the ducks so they come closer. Unfortunately, this is a very bad habit as the ducks become dependent on human handouts or they eat too much and unhealthy, like the duck bellow.
The water is cold, so this mallard duck pair decided to take a rest and warm up a little.


