Id this duck. I'm thinking a mottled hen. Not very sure...

Mottled duck (drake) Just an old fella, hens usuallly always have some black shades on their beak

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In the picture is a young drake!

a tasty one

Mottled duck.

We have tons of those here in South Florida, I'm actually surprised if I don't take one home on every hunt. One of the best tasting around.

We call them Black mallards the green bill shows its a female....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Black_Duck

Looks like a mottle to me (speculum tells ya). Like Chico said, it's pretty easy to shoot one every trip. They eat okay, unless they have found a bunch of small apple snails to gorge on. Quite a few get banded down here. I shot a banded mottle one day, went back to the same clump of grass a few days later and shot another banded mottle.... With consecutive band numbers.

I call that a tally!!!

Well fellas this one is going to the taxidermist. I killed it about 300 miles from the Gulf in northeast Alabama. We will kill a few blacks occassionally but never a mottled so I think it is very mount worthy.

Any duck other than a teal is a "Big Duck"

I was thinking after looking at it closely, it could be a hybrid.


The underbelly and feathers nearest the tail are way to pale to be a black duck, they are super dark all over, even underneath, but that bill isn't as bright as a mottled either, it's like a black duck hen. Were it's underwings very white? The speculum of a black duck (male and female) is also very deep purple, this one is teal colored.