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Anybody ever kill any Black Ducks or Black Mallards?
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:48 am
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:48 am
That's a good looking bird!
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Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:49 am to Clyde Tipton
I have seen one black duck killed. foot and I missed a few opportunities one season.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:51 am to Clyde Tipton
A few, none had the afro
:nb4blackvsmottle:
:nb4blackvsmottle:
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:53 am to Clyde Tipton
I have seen exactly one true black mallard killed in quite a few years of hunts. It was on a day where we probably had several thousand mallards in the field we were hunting in Arkansas about 6 years ago and it was easy to spot when it lit in the decoys with a group of green heads. 99% of what people kill and call "black mallards" are really mottled ducks.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:55 am to TigerDog83
And it's really simple to tell the difference between the 2
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:55 am to MrCoachKlein
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:nb4blackvsmottle:
I killed 1 in Grand Chenier in the 90's, I assume it was a mottled duck knowing what I know now. But all those coonasses were going on about "Got you a black mallard, chyeah.".
I've got a picture at the house, I'll try to remember to get a copy uploaded this afternoon for debate's sake.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:02 am to Clyde Tipton
I have two on the wall. Only things I'm ever stuffed
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:06 am to Clyde Tipton
Clyde-is like to see it. We don't kill a lot of them but I see a few residents in the coastal marsh down here. Smart birds
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:07 am to Clyde Tipton
A couple in Cameron and one in wax lake. Didn't look like him so maybe they were mottled ducks? They had yellow feet.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:10 am to PaBon
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a few residents in the coastal marsh down here. Smart birds
I got the one I killed because I watched it skirt the blind 2 morning in a row. The third morning I went and stood in the cut he crossed through at daylight and got him.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:10 am to ReelFun
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Didn't look like him so maybe they were mottled ducks?
The pic in the original post was supposed to be a joke.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:15 am to ReelFun
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I have seen a lot of post lately concerning black/mottled ducks. One of the easiest ways to tell is to look at the throat area, if the entire throat patch is buff colored with no dark colored specks, it is a mottled. If the throat patch is speckled, its a black. Dave Luke, a world renowned waterfowl taxidermist in La. once told me the scientific (Latin) name anas fulvigula translates into "pale throat". I researched on line yesterday, but could not find the translation. I have killed black ducks from Boston Ma. to Georgia and lots of places in between, and have killed mottled ducks from La. to the Ga. coast. There is a difference in the two species, and the white band above the speculum, nor the color of the speculum is a sure fire way to differentiate. I hope this helps.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:18 am to Clyde Tipton
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The pic in the original post was supposed to be a joke.
I want to kill one! what kind is that? and where do they live. lol
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:27 am to ReelFun
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where do they live.
At the Alexandria Zoo.
Mottled:
Black Duck:
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:31 am to Clyde Tipton
I was asking about the one with the "fro"
The ones I've killed had the blue chevron on the wing. Black duck.
The ones I've killed had the blue chevron on the wing. Black duck.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:33 am to ReelFun
Well, mallards and mottleds both have the same thing
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:50 am to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:51 am to PapaPogey
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Well, mallards and mottleds both have the same thing
well hell. I'm going with Black. My partner I was hunting with said they were black ducks. He has been hunting the Cameron area for 40 years so I'll take his word for it.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 11:04 am to ReelFun
If on the coast, I always assume Mottled. All the true blacks I've seen and heard of were along the Ms. River or adjacent bottomland.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 11:17 am to AlxTgr
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If on the coast, I always assume Mottled. All the true blacks I've seen and heard of were along the Ms. River or adjacent bottomland.
This is probably accurate but I did kill a mottled in South Arkansas in 1999 or 2000. Several guys checked it to make sure but we came to the conclusion mottled. The black that was killed in one of our old blinds in Arkansas was definitely a black.
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