In April 2021, many social media users got their first glimpse of "Long Boi," a duck that lives near the campus of the University of York in England. An image of this dapper duck was widely shared on ...

When you think “duck,” the duck that probably comes to mind (besides Donald Duck) is the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallards are the quintessential duck. They quack like a duck should. They have a ...

The hens aren’t coming home to roost, and something’s going to have to change. Beginning in Minnesota. The hens in this case are mallards, specifically adult hen mallards, and their absence on the ...

One of our most common large waterbirds and the ancestor of several domesticated breeds, the mallard is widely regarded as the archetypal wild duck, familiar from the village pond to its ceramic ...