The Advocate

Marsh loss turning native Louisiana ducks into common mallards

The mottled duck is looking for love in all the wrong places. As its breeding grounds disappear along the Louisiana coast, the mottled duck -- the only duck native to the marshes of the American South ...
The News-Messenger

It may quack like a duck, but science shows eastern and western mallards are different

These are the various ways French, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Arabian, Hungarian, Russian, and Thai might imitate the call of a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), probably the most common duck in the world.
Berkshire Eagle

Common mergansers are easy to identify. No other duck has the same combination of blazing, titanium white body feathers and black feathers on the head

It was a rainy Sunday morning at the beginning of March and I was suffering from cabin fever. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but I had been cooped up nonetheless. Saturday had gone by ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Duck numbers down in key breeding areas

MEMPHIS -- In its annual report on breeding duck numbers and May habitat conditions, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed a population decrease in nine of the 10 most common duck species.