Identifying domestic ducks

[Ospr3y]

Hi guys, what do you think of these ducks?




Original thread: http://www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/92161-greater-white-fronted-goose-and-mallard/

 

[Amiga]

Khaki Campbells or KC mixes, maybe.

 

[Ospr3y]

Thank you! That was my impression.

How about this guy? Duclair or Swedish? How does one tell the two apart?



Original thread: http://www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/93659-domestic-mallard-x/

 

[Amiga]

It's not Swedish, I don't have a reference for size, but its features look like Call to me.

Bibbed Call, perhaps?

 

[Ospr3y]

Unless the drake beside it is a call as well, I think it would be standard-sized.

 

[Amiga]

Perhaps . . . . just the proportions are so Call-like. I'm going with Call.

 

[Ospr3y]

Thanks!
Is there any easy way to distinguish between East Indies and Cayugas aside from size? Going from photos, it appears East Indies have a pronounced amount of bronzy green iridescence on the head. Is this reliable?

 

[kswaterfowl]

This appears to be a fairly common cross bred Mallard. We have large populations of these around us where white was somehow introduced into a flock of otherwise wild colored wild Mallards and the offspring hatch with a bib or various colors. A lot of people buy their children ducklings as presents and when the realize how much work and how messy they are they turn them loose and they interbreed with wild populations and produce a huge array of "pretty" birds. On a recent shopping trip in a larger city east of us we came across a huge flock of these type of birds. There were probably 20-30 regular wild (gray) Mallards and then the rest of the flock was the same size or just slightly larger, but they were kahki, black bibbed, blue bibbed, golden, dusky, black bibbed with some runner-pattern (almost magpie marked) etc... etc...