Mallard
(Anas platyrhynchos)[] | |
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| Species ID: | 2-1-1-202-17821 |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Genus: | Anas |
| Conservation status: | LC - Least Concern |
| Population trend: | Stable |
| Links: | ADW / Wikipedia |
Subspecies[]
- A. p. conboschas (Greenland mallard)
- A. p. domesticus (Domestic duck)
- A. p. platyrhynchos (Nominate subspecies)
Physical Description[]
| Avg. length: | 50 - 65 cm |
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| Avg. wingspan: | 81 - 98 cm |
| Avg. mass: | 0.72 - 1.58 kg |
| Colors: | Males: Bottle-green, Brown, Grey, Purple-blue (markings)
Females: Mottled brown, Purple-blue (markings) |
Lifespan[]
| Avg. lifespan in wild: | 3 - 20 (max 29) years |
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| Avg. lifespan in captivity: | 3 - 20 years |
Reproduction[]
| Mating system: | Monogamous |
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| Breeding season: | October - March |
| Mode of reproduction: | Oviparous |
| Incubation period: | 27 - 28 days |
| Avg. clutch size: | 8 - 13 eggs |
| Parental care: | Female |
| Breeding interval: | 1 year |
| Maturity: | 12 - 14 months |
Behavior & Ecology[]
| Activity: | Diurnal |
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| Sociality: | Communal |
| Avg. group size: | 2 individuals |
| Movement: | Migratory, Sedentary |
| Systems: | Freshwater, Terrestrial, Aerial, Marine |
| Diet: | Aquatic plants, Grasses, Seeds, Roots, Tubers, Molluscs, Insects, Larvae, Crustaceans, Worms |
| Predators: | Foxes, Raptors, Mustelids, Corvids, Snakes, Raccoons, Skunks, Opossums, Turtles, Large fish, Felids, Canids |
Habitats[]
Suitable[]
- 5.1 Permanent rivers
- 5.2 Seasonal rivers
- 5.3 Shrub wetlands
- 5.4 Swamps and peatlands
- 5.5 Permanent lakes
- 5.6 Seasonal lakes
- 5.7 Permanent marshes
- 5.8 Seasonal marshes
- 5.10 Tundra wetlands
- 5.13 Inland deltas
- 9.10 Estuaries
- 13.4 Coastal saline lakes
- 13.5 Coastal freshwater lakes
- 14.1 Arable lands
- 14.2 Pasturelands
- 14.4 Rural gardens
- 14.5 Urban areas
- 15.1 Water storage areas
- 15.2 Ponds
Distribution[]
Ecoregion range
Ecozones[]
Terrestrial Ecoregions[]
- AT0112 Ethiopian montane forests
- AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
- AT0713 Sahelian Acacia savanna
- AT0715 Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1302 Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert
- AT1305 Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
- AT1306 Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
- AT1317 Red Sea coastal desert
- AT1320 Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna
- IM0105 Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
- IM0115 Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
- IM0120 Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- IM0124 Malabar Coast moist forests
- IM0126 Meghalaya subtropical forests
- IM0134 North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
- IM0142 Orissa semi-evergreen forests
- IM0166 Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- IM0170 Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
- IM0171 South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
- IM0172 Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
- IM0201 Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
- IM0205 Irrawaddy dry forests
- IM0206 Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests
- IM0207 Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
- IM0301 Himalayan subtropical pine forests
- IM0401 Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
- IM0403 Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
- IM0501 Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
- IM0502 Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
- IM0701 Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
- IM0901 Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
- IM1301 Deccan thorn scrub forests
- IM1302 Indus Valley desert
- IM1303 Northwestern thorn scrub forests
- IM1304 Thar desert
- IM1401 Godavari-Krishna mangroves
- IM1403 Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
- NA0201 Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
- NA0303 Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
- NA0401 Allegheny Highlands forests
- NA0402 Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
- NA0403 Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
- NA0404 Central U.S. hardwood forests
- NA0405 East Central Texas forests
- NA0406 Eastern forest-boreal transition
- NA0407 Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- NA0408 Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
- NA0409 Mississippi lowland forests
- NA0410 New England-Acadian forests
- NA0411 Northeastern coastal forests
- NA0412 Ozark Mountain forests
- NA0413 Southeastern mixed forests
- NA0414 Southern Great Lakes forests
- NA0415 Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
- NA0416 Western Great Lakes forests
- NA0417 Willamette Valley forests
- NA0501 Alberta Mountain forests
- NA0502 Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
- NA0503 Arizona Mountains forests
- NA0504 Atlantic coastal pine barrens
- NA0505 Blue Mountains forests
- NA0506 British Columbia mainland coastal forests
- NA0507 Cascade Mountains leeward forests
- NA0508 Central and Southern Cascades forests
- NA0509 Central British Columbia Mountain forests
- NA0510 Central Pacific coastal forests
- NA0511 Colorado Rockies forests
- NA0512 Eastern Cascades forests
- NA0513 Florida sand pine scrub
- NA0514 Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
- NA0515 Great Basin montane forests
- NA0516 Klamath-Siskiyou forests
- NA0517 Middle Atlantic coastal forests
- NA0518 North Central Rockies forests
- NA0519 Northern California coastal forests
- NA0520 Northern Pacific coastal forests
- NA0521 Northern transitional alpine forests
- NA0522 Okanagan dry forests
- NA0523 Piney Woods forests
- NA0524 Puget lowland forests
- NA0527 Sierra Nevada forests
- NA0528 South Central Rockies forests
- NA0529 Southeastern conifer forests
- NA0530 Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
- NA0601 Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
- NA0602 Central Canadian Shield forests
- NA0603 Cook Inlet taiga
- NA0604 Copper Plateau taiga
- NA0605 Eastern Canadian forests
- NA0607 Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
- NA0608 Mid-Continental Canadian forests
- NA0609 Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
- NA0610 Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
- NA0611 Newfoundland Highland forests
- NA0612 Northern Canadian Shield taiga
- NA0613 Northern Cordillera forests
- NA0614 Northwest Territories taiga
- NA0615 South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens
- NA0616 Southern Hudson Bay taiga
- NA0617 Yukon Interior dry forests
- NA0801 California Central Valley grasslands
- NA0802 Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
- NA0803 Central and Southern mixed grasslands
- NA0804 Central forest-grasslands transition
- NA0805 Central tall grasslands
- NA0806 Edwards Plateau savanna
- NA0807 Flint Hills tall grasslands
- NA0808 Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
- NA0809 Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
- NA0810 Northern mixed grasslands
- NA0811 Northern short grasslands
- NA0812 Northern tall grasslands
- NA0813 Palouse grasslands
- NA0814 Texas blackland prairies
- NA0815 Western short grasslands
- NA1101 Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
- NA1102 Aleutian Islands tundra
- NA1103 Arctic coastal tundra
- NA1104 Arctic foothills tundra
- NA1106 Beringia lowland tundra
- NA1107 Beringia upland tundra
- NA1108 Brooks-British Range tundra
- NA1111 Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra
- NA1112 Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra
- NA1113 Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra
- NA1116 Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra
- NA1117 Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
- NA1118 Torngat Mountain tundra
- NA1201 California coastal sage and chaparral
- NA1202 California interior chaparral and woodlands
- NA1203 California montane chaparral and woodlands
- NA1303 Chihuahuan desert
- NA1304 Colorado Plateau shrublands
- NA1305 Great Basin shrub steppe
- NA1307 Meseta Central matorral
- NA1308 Mojave desert
- NA1309 Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
- NA1310 Sonoran desert
- NA1311 Tamaulipan matorral
- NA1312 Tamaulipan mezquital
- NA1313 Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
- NT0120 Cuban moist forests
- NT0164 South Florida rocklands
- NT0213 Cuban dry forests
- NT0228 Sinaloan dry forests
- NT0301 Bahamian pine mosaic
- NT0304 Cuban pine forests
- NT0902 Cuban wetlands
- NT0904 Everglades
- NT1306 Cuban cactus scrub
- NT1402 Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves
- OC0106 Hawaii tropical moist forests
- OC0202 Hawaii tropical dry forests
- OC0701 Hawaii tropical high shrublands
- OC0702 Hawaii tropical low shrublands
- OC0703 Northwestern Hawaii scrub
- PA0401 Appenine deciduous montane forests
- PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests
- PA0404 Balkan mixed forests
- PA0405 Baltic mixed forests
- PA0406 Cantabrian mixed forests
- PA0407 Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
- PA0408 Caucasus mixed forests
- PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests
- PA0410 Central Anatolian deciduous forests
- PA0412 Central European mixed forests
- PA0413 Central Korean deciduous forests
- PA0416 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
- PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
- PA0419 East European forest steppe
- PA0420 Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
- PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests
- PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
- PA0423 Hokkaido deciduous forests
- PA0426 Manchurian mixed forests
- PA0427 Nihonkai evergreen forests
- PA0428 Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
- PA0429 North Atlantic moist mixed forests
- PA0430 Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- PA0431 Pannonian mixed forests
- PA0432 Po Basin mixed forests
- PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
- PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests
- PA0436 Sarmatic mixed forests
- PA0438 South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
- PA0439 Southern Korea evergreen forests
- PA0440 Taiheiyo evergreen forests
- PA0441 Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
- PA0443 Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
- PA0444 Western Siberian hemiboreal forests
- PA0445 Western European broadleaf forests
- PA0446 Zagros Mountains forest steppe
- PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests
- PA0502 Altai montane forest and forest steppe
- PA0503 Caledon conifer forests
- PA0504 Carpathian montane forests
- PA0505 Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
- PA0506 East Afghan montane conifer forests
- PA0510 Hokkaido montane conifer forests
- PA0511 Honshu alpine conifer forests
- PA0512 Khangai Mountains conifer forests
- PA0513 Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
- PA0515 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
- PA0519 Sayan montane conifer forests
- PA0520 Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
- PA0521 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
- PA0601 East Siberian taiga
- PA0602 Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
- PA0603 Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests
- PA0604 Kamchatka-Kurile taiga
- PA0605 Northeast Siberian taiga
- PA0606 Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
- PA0607 Sakhalin Island taiga
- PA0608 Scandinavian and Russian taiga
- PA0609 Trans-Baikal conifer forests
- PA0610 Ural montane forests and tundra
- PA0611 West Siberian taiga
- PA0801 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
- PA0802 Altai steppe and semi-desert
- PA0803 Central Anatolian steppe
- PA0804 Daurian forest steppe
- PA0805 Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
- PA0806 Emin Valley steppe
- PA0808 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
- PA0809 Kazakh forest steppe
- PA0810 Kazakh steppe
- PA0811 Kazakh upland
- PA0812 Middle East steppe
- PA0813 Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
- PA0814 Pontic steppe
- PA0815 Sayan Intermontane steppe
- PA0816 Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
- PA0817 South Siberian forest steppe
- PA0818 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
- PA0901 Amur meadow steppe
- PA0903 Nenjiang River grassland
- PA0904 Nile Delta flooded savanna
- PA0905 Saharan halophytics
- PA0906 Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
- PA0907 Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
- PA1001 Altai alpine meadow and tundra
- PA1002 Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- PA1006 Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
- PA1007 Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
- PA1008 Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
- PA1010 Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
- PA1011 North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert
- PA1014 Pamir alpine desert and tundra
- PA1015 Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
- PA1016 Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
- PA1017 Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
- PA1018 Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
- PA1019 Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
- PA1020 Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
- PA1022 Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe
- PA1103 Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra
- PA1105 Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra
- PA1110 Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands
- PA1112 Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra
- PA1201 Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- PA1202 Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
- PA1205 Crete Mediterranean forests
- PA1206 Cyprus Mediterranean forests
- PA1207 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
- PA1208 Iberian conifer forests
- PA1209 Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
- PA1210 Illyrian deciduous forests
- PA1211 Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
- PA1212 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
- PA1213 Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
- PA1214 Mediterranean woodlands and forests
- PA1215 Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
- PA1216 Northwest Iberian montane forests
- PA1217 Pindus Mountains mixed forests
- PA1218 South Appenine mixed montane forests
- PA1219 Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
- PA1220 Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
- PA1221 Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- PA1222 Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- PA1302 Alashan Plateau semi-desert
- PA1303 Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
- PA1305 Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
- PA1306 Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
- PA1308 Caspian lowland desert
- PA1309 Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
- PA1310 Central Asian northern desert
- PA1311 Central Asian riparian woodlands
- PA1312 Central Asian southern desert
- PA1314 Eastern Gobi desert steppe
- PA1315 Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
- PA1316 Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
- PA1317 Junggar Basin semi-desert
- PA1318 Kazakh semi-desert
- PA1320 Mesopotamian shrub desert
- PA1321 North Saharan steppe and woodlands
- PA1324 Qaidam Basin semi-desert
- PA1325 Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
- PA1326 Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
- PA1327 Sahara desert
- PA1328 South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
- PA1329 South Saharan steppe and woodlands