Mallard Ducks In Back Garden Cottage Scone By Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of Mallard ducks on a visit to the back garden of my cottage in Scone by Perth, Perthshire. These ducks are from the pond in the public park in Scone and they often go for a wander. The Mallard, anas platyrhynchos, is the most familiar and widespread species of dabbling duck in Europe, including Britain and Ireland. Mallards are adaptable waders who live happily in tiny ponds in towns and cities as well as in marshes and wetlands in the wider countryside. Males and females are not alike. The male has a distinctive bottle-green head, a white collar, purple-brown breast and grey on the wings and underparts. The female has mottled brown plumage. Mallards are sociable ducks. The Mallard's adaptability to different types of environments has allowed them to spread to towns and cities. Some in parks and lakes can become very tame, especially if they are regularly fed by humans. Both the male and female have blue wing bars, edged in black and white. The male's bill is greenish yellow and the female's bill is orange brow.

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