Odd colored duck.

I'd say partial albino - pretty cool looking and definitley a black duck.
 
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kevin sent me the pics on my phone but i can see them a lot better on the computer (bigger). I was thinking a black duck and white domestic duck hybird.
 
It's got a lot of mallard in it by that white stripe above the speculum and the tail is hen mallard but hard to tell why it is that way. Could be pie bald or could be a park duck cross. I don't see anything that says Black to me. I'd say a hen mallard with a lot of white feathers in the wings. Cool bird.

Just a tip, when you are wondering if a duck has black duck in it a photo of the under wing can help also.

Tim
 
Cool bird. Just a tip, when you are wondering if a duck has black duck in it a photo of the under wing can help also.

I can tell you the underwing in all white on both wings.
 
Cool bird. Just a tip, when you are wondering if a duck has black duck in it a photo of the under wing can help also.

I can tell you the underwing in all white on both wings.
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A black duck would show some dark feathers on the underwing and a hybrid should show some. The scapulars look all hen mallard to me, so does the tail and speculum. The bill being green isn't uncommon on hen mallards, especially young ones.
The piebald pattern is a little odd being confined to the wings. Normally park ducks are more blotchy around the body. Interesting.

Tim
 
I'd say his momma was a park mallard and his daddy was a wandering black duck just stopping in for a quick visit!
 
And just so everybody knows, NO I wasn't hunting in the local park.
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Must have been the zoo then! :>) Trip
 
And just so everybody knows, NO I wasn't hunting in the local park.
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Must have been the zoo then! :>) Trip
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I WISH! The last time I took my daughter to the Cape May Zoo, I saw more banded mallards then I'll ever see in a lifetime of hunting. To make it worse there were two pair of Pintail there too. I've never seen them hand around a park before.
 
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And just so everybody knows, NO I wasn't hunting in the local park.
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Why not??? I do... Them ducks are fat, tender and easy to water splat...:)
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Reminds me of our September goose season a few years back. I local state park let hunter come in on the swimming beach to "reduce the popultion". First thing in the morning the park ranger made sure noone was around, then said "have at em". Everyone cut loose on roughly 50 geese sitting on the beach. That was the only year they did that, because people complained about all the blood on the swimming beach.
 

First thing I noticed was the olive colored bill, which would seem to indicate black duck...just an observation
 
i swear i saw that exact duck paired up with another black duck last week. almost got them to commit but not quite. i was hunting just inside the del bay shore. interesting colors thats for sure
 
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