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...

The 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 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 Mexican duck (Anas diazi) [2] is a species of dabbling duck that breeds in Mexico and the southwestern United States. Most of the population is resident, but some northern birds migrate south to Mexico in winter.

Learn more about Mexican Duck from… 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.

Mar 12, 2020 · The Mexican Duck, Anas [platyrhynchos] diazi, is considered by the American Ornithological Society and the ABA to be a subspecies, but many ornithologists believe it probably warrants full-species rank. This article reviews the basic natural history and field identification of this little-known member of the ABA Area’s avifauna.

Mar 4, 2020 · Mexican Duck (Anas diazi), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (P. G. Rodewald and B. K. Keeney, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.mexduc.01. A global alliance of nature organizations working to document the natural history of all bird species at an unprecedented scale.

The Mexican duck, Anas diazi, is a species of dabbling duck with a general resemblance to the female mallard. It is characterized by a predominantly brown plumage and measures between 51 to 56 centimeters in length.

The 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. …

Marshy ponds and river. Domestic Mallard Duck, Gadwall. Parque Ecológico, Tepic, Nayarit, México / Feb-2018 © Antonio Robles.