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Saw this here after it was pointed out on another forum. This can't be very common in the wild can it? There are more pictures on the website. 
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I don't know much about ducks, but given how different I understand mallard and wood duck nesting practices are (let alone physical/coloring differences), such hybrids must be pretty rare.
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It's a Franken duck! 
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"c'mon....it's halloween!" Brettski, I think you've got Halloween and April Fools mixed up. 
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I sure wish I had some pictures of the four drakes somebody gave us in the early summer last year as a "present" for the pond. They looked extremely similar to the critter pictured.
They were supposedly a mix between mallards and some mixed breed pet ducks. The former owner suggested I clip their wings.
I kept them in a pen for a week after I got them. As soon as I opened the pen, two flew away immediately before I could even think of clipping their wings. The other two took up a summer lifestyle together in the pond. They would eat corn I'd throw, but we could never get close to them. Each evening they would fly a couple of circles around the pond near sunset. Then in about mid-October, they flew off, never to be seen again.
That picture could be one of them.
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Sure those didn't come out of the square pond down by the nuke plant???? lol
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I would love to kill one of those in the timber one day. It will go straight to the taxidermist. Haven't ever killed a cross...just a banded wood duck so far is my only "trophy" or whatever.
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Reminds me of an old song by Mickey Gilley, "The hens all get prettier at closing time".
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I've heard of pintail-mallard crosses but never wood
duck-mallard crosses.
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