Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos

f8 @ 1/1000s, ISO: 640, Nikon D3S w 200mm

\"Mallard,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The females have mainly brown-speckled plumage.The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe.[16] Both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple blue speculum feathers edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest, though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult.

Kangasala, Finland

09/02/2012