Animals / Bird

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos · Anatidae

The mallard or wild duck is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout temperate and subtropical North America, Eurasia, and North Africa. It has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa. Belonging to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae, mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes.

Where the Mallard lives

Recorded in United States of America, Canada, Sweden, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, France, Spain and Germany (North America and Europe).

Most records fall in Västra Götaland, Midtjylland, Stockholm, Skåne, Sjaælland and Hessen.

See the Mallard’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 29,731,633 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.