I began duck hunting in the 1970s when daily limits were determined by a complex point system. The daily limit was 100 points. A mallard hen was worth 90 points and a drake was worth 35 points ...

This drake, along with the hen it was with ... certificate labels the greenhead’s maternal lineage as “mallard-like duck old world,” meaning this bird can be linked back to European descent ...

The black duck is often mistaken for a hen mallard on the wing. But a closer side-by-side comparison will quickly reveal the black duck’s much darker chocolate-brown feathers. It is also one of ...

For about a month, the hen will spend most ... of human actions on the mallard’s biology. Until the early 1900s, for example, this most common species of duck was actually quite uncommon ...