Are you sure?????
 

Ok! Well im still not sure about this.... What EXACTLY is the difference between the mottled and black mallard? If you say the white strip on the bottom the DUCK UNLIMITED I.D chart on there web site shows a little white strip this this one.....??????

http://i45.tinypic.com/15wc7d0.jpg

i call that a black mallard.

look at the beak

i'd like to know before the lady mounting it for me rights the wrong name of the duck on the plate....! D:

Ive killed thousands of mottle ducks and never a blackduck, but that does look a little different than any mottle duck Ive every killed, I would say blackduck but more pics would help.

What angle, i only took a million pics, at the time i thought it was a blackduck.....

http://www.huntingcircle.com/pics/mmottled.gif

http://www.huntingcircle.com/mottled.php

black duck

http://www.flyways.us/dad-black-duck

Most mottle ducks have that more greenish purple patch that duck looks almost like a solid blue patch and the body is darker than most mottle ducks

soo,, Blackduck?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1

scroll down...mottled and black together

A good rule of thumb on speculum coloration to distinguish Mallards from Mottled Ducks and Black Ducks is:


Mallard : 2 white stripes (top and bottom)
Mottled Duck: 1 white stripe (bottom)
Black Duck: 0 white stripes

its so much darker than mottled ducks, but the white makes you think its a mottled

but go look at d.u's i.d thing and the black duck DOES have a lil white on the bottom, soo idk:confused::confused:

more I look at it may be a black duck???? :spineyes:

Good keep looking at it, haha it's getting mounted as we speak i mean TYPE!

say... mottled duck.. or black duck on the plate

or you could just put a big "?"

no man thats a mottled duck no doubt....ive killed hundreds they get dark like that esp. early in the year sometimes....if it was a black stripe you wouldnt have a small distinguishing white stripe on the bottom of its color patch.....or maybe i couldve just been shooting black ducks the whole time and didnt know it..but i think its a mottled

Take a look at this.......
http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfo...y/1/index.html

http://www.ducks.org/media/hunting/w...blackDuck1.jpg

I saw that too FM...not sure but DU may have made a mistake???