Mexican Duck | Audubon Field Guide
WEBAt a Glance. This duck of the Southwest and Mexico is a very close relative of the Mallard, and was classified as just a subspecies of that species from 1983 to 2020. New research suggests that it is just as distinct as two other Mallard relatives, the American Black Duck and Mottled Duck, so now the Mexican Duck is classified as a full species ...
Mexican Duck Identification - All About Birds
WEBThe Mexican Duck is an understated dabbling duck that can easily be passed off as "just a female Mallard"—brownish overall with rich cinnamon (male) or buffy (female) highlights. In fact, it was treated as a Mallard subspecies for decades, from 1973 to 2020.
Mexican Duck - eBird
WEBIdentification. POWERED BY MERLIN. Both sexes look like a dark-colored female Mallard. Bill of male is dull yellowish; bill of female is mottled orange and black, like a typical Mallard. In flight, bright white underwings contrast with dark body.
Mexican duck - Wikipedia
WEBThe Mexican duck ( Anas diazi) [ 2] is a species of dabbling duck that breeds in Mexico and the southwestern United States. Distribution and habitat. Most of the population is resident, but some northern birds migrate south to Mexico in winter.
Mexican Duck Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
WEBThe Mexican Duck is an understated dabbling duck that can easily be passed off as "just a female Mallard"—brownish overall with rich cinnamon (male) or buffy (female) highlights. In fact, it was treated as a Mallard subspecies for decades, from 1973 to 2020.
The Bird We Always-Never Knew - American Birding Association
WEBThis article reviews the basic natural history and field identification of this little-known member of the ABA Area’s avifauna. The adult male Mexican Duck in basic (breeding) plumage is often first spotted by its combination of “female Mallard” plumage and a …
Mexican Duck Life History - All About Birds
WEBThe Mexican Duck is an understated dabbling duck that can easily be passed off as "just a female Mallard"—brownish overall with rich cinnamon (male) or buffy (female) highlights. In fact, it was treated as a Mallard subspecies for decades, from 1973 to 2020.
Mallard/Mexican Duck - eBird
WEBLearn about Mallard/Mexican Duck: explore photos, sounds, and observations collected by birders around the world.
Mexican Duck | Mexican Birds.org
WEBThe Mexican Duck, Anas diazi, is a dabbling duck and a member of the Anatidae Family of Duck, Geese and Waterfowl, which has one hundred seventy-four members placed in fifty-three genera, and one of thirty-one global species of the Anas Genus. They are also known in Mexico as ánade Mexicano.
MEXICAN DUCK | The Texas Breeding Bird Atlas
WEBMexican Duck was considered a separate species for almost a century, but is now treated as a subspecies of the “typical” Mallard because of extensive hybridization along the United States-Mexico border (Am. Ornithol. Union 1998).
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