Several species of duck have brown-plumaged females which can be confused with the female Mallard.
The female Mallard is light brown, like most female dabbling ducks.
The females are light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard.
This female mallard was brought into Slimbridge yesterday totally paralysed and she's already showing signs of recovery.
Females give a call similar to the quack of a female Mallard but higher-pitched, transcribed as gag-ag-ag-ag.
It is intermediate in appearance between the female Mallard and the American Black Duck.
Both sexes of this 51-56 cm length bird resemble a female Mallard, but with a slightly darker body.
Every year for at least seven a female mallard has chosen an atrium in the school as her birthing center.
He was not sure if he had hit a black duck or a female mallard, which, he said, are almost indistinguishable.
Both sexes are mottled brown in color, resembling a female Mallard.