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Until fairly recently, the Mexican duck was considered to be a race of the ubiquitious mallard, but today most authorities consider them as a separate species. Male Mexican ducks (shown in these photos) resemble female mallards with their subdued brown plumage, but have the banana-yellow bill of a male mallard. These birds were swimming in a small canal at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge in New Mexico. |
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