Can someone tell me the difference btw.....

[specksNdaSURF]

a mottled duck and a black mallard

[specksNdaSURF]

should have been more specific how can i tell them apart?

[bluewing]

I don't think a game warden can really tell them apart

[specksNdaSURF]

Originally Posted by bluewing

I don't think a game warden can really tell them apart

cmon man been looking at pics of both. Killed 3 mottles this am one was very big in fact the same size as a greenhead and the other 2 mottles were smaller but both also drakes

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Your black mallards are really dark in color, and the male has a grennish color beak and the female has a yellow beak. Your mottled ducks are a lighter color and they have beaks like mallard hens.

[specksNdaSURF]

Originally Posted by DUCKGOGETTER

Your black mallards are really dark in color, and the male has a grennish color beak and the female has a yellow beak. Your mottled ducks are a lighter color and they have beaks like mallard hens.

i identified the duck i shot this morning it was a mottled duck. put the band # in the computer (reportband.com) it was a drake mottled banded in 2008

[Dink]

Originally Posted by DUCKGOGETTER

Your black mallards are really dark in color, and the male has a grennish color beak and the female has a yellow beak. Your mottled ducks are a lighter color and they have beaks like mallard hens.

I'm gonna have to print this out.....

[DUCKGOGETTER]

I apologize. We hunt by rockefeller refuge and we kill alot of black mallards. That's what i was told by a biologist from the refuge. Just trying to help.

[Asterisk-Rich]

congrats on the jewelry!

[Gottogo49]

It ain't easy, fortunately we don't get very many Black ducks down here. Mallard subspecies hybrids are not uncommon, that makes it worse. Maybe this will help.
http://www.greglasley.net/motblk.html

[LaAngler]

black mallard is a commonly used name for mottled ducks

vs. black duck

[SULPHITE]

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

[Micah]

Originally Posted by LaAngler

black mallard is a commonly used name for mottled ducks

vs. black duck

Yep.....and you can only kill 1 of each anyway. i would be safe and not kill more than 1 cause we dont get many true black ducks over here...if any

[H2OFwlKlr]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

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

Exactly, 100% correct, only way to distinquish between the three for true indentification.



If you kill a "true" black duck down here, consider it a trophy!

[Lake Chuck Duck]

We had the same problem last year with mottled duck and mallard hens. But we hunt a goose blind that sometimes gets a little water. All the ducks we get are just passing through so we arent experts of identification. We found out its all in the white of the wings.

[speck25]

There is no such thing as a black mallard.

[Duck Butter]

I am from North Louisiana and we occasionally shot a few true Black Ducks, also known as Black Mallards. They would typically be in flocks of mallards. We do have a few small breeding populations in north La, one being Upper Oua****a NWR. I have killed mottleds in Richland Parish also. ]

I hear people down here calling mottleds Black Mallards also. Just a local thing I guess. As said above, the wing bars are a good indication if you only have a wing, but mottleds also have a little sorta black triangle in the corner of the bill that is a good indicator.

Down here, I would say 99% are mottleds, but IF it came in with mallards, you may have yourself a black duck.