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Black- billed mallard hen

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  1. Jan 27, 2019 #1
    SkolMNDuckHunter

    SkolMNDuckHunter Senior Refuge Member

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    I shot this bird a few months ago and got ridiculed on a Facebook group for asking if it was a hybrid... apparently that's a bad word.
    Anyway I was just thinking about this bird again tonight as it was a awesome field hunt in freshly combined corn. She sailed and buried herself in the corn leaves and stubble. My dog tracked her down and pinned her to the ground when she tried getting back up. Anybody see or shoot mallards with all black bills like this?
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  2. Jan 27, 2019 #2
    SkolMNDuckHunter

    SkolMNDuckHunter Senior Refuge Member

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    1duckmaster

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    That an old hen mallard!
     
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    oldfireguy

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    Get a LeMasters waterfowl i.d. book. Match bill.
    3 years ago I shot a greenhead mallard with what turned out to be a pintail bill. Add green speculum...and indeed a mallard pintail cross.

    Hangs on my wall.
     
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  5. Jan 27, 2019 #5
    metalworx

    metalworx Senior Refuge Member

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    Kinda looks like a mallard/ pintail cross to me
     
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    creedsduckman

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    I'm guessing just a Suzy with a little more black on her bill than normal.
     
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    snipe n, pud123 and WHUP ! Hen like this.
  7. Jan 27, 2019 #7
    SkolMNDuckHunter

    SkolMNDuckHunter Senior Refuge Member

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    That's what I thought right away. Then I asked for thoughts on a Facebook group, and got ridiculed for it.
    That could be. It wasn't just a little more though, this thing was all black. Not a spec of orange.
     
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  8. Jan 27, 2019 #8
    H20DAD

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    Do not quote me on this but for some reason I think I have seen where the hen mallards in New Zealand have all black hills regularly. It may not be New Zealand but there is some place.

    Also, like with I think a lot of the blond mallards people are shooting there are just tons of domestic duck genes floating around these days and your duck may have some portion of those genes.
     
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    creedsduckman

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    Ok alot more. I don't see anything that says pintail.
     
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  10. Jan 27, 2019 #10
    California Flyway

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    Garcia River Mallard
     
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