Male mallards make a softer ... the only — duck that many people learn to identify. That is to say, the first drake (male) duck. With his iridescent green head and yellow bill, narrow white ...

I didn’t see the pair of mallards until they were on top of me. I was hidden in the shadows behind a small bush when the birds swung over my left shoulder. By the time I turned toward the creek ...

Despite a couple of late Arctic pushes the ducks, which for most avid hunters means mallards, seemed scarce in the state. Actually, hunters were saying the same thing in Oklahoma. But is often the ...