The Mallard duck is the most common duck in the Northern Hemisphere. It can be 50-65 cm in length and its wingspan is 82-95 cm. They can be many different colors according to the region and they can be gray, brown, orange, and green. For ducks they are large with rounded hands and wide flat bills. They can live almost every wetland like ponds, rivers, marshes and coastal habitats. Also they live in the city like suburban parks and residential backyards. Their mating habits are unfortunately not great they gang up on female duck and which ever has the offspring has the offspring. After this the male leaves the female to other male to molt. Their preferred food are seeds, acorns, and berries, insects and shellfish. A lot of people feed them bread which is bad because it confuses them to think they have more food than they actually do. Their status is of least concern.
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