The Wild Duck
by Darren Fisher
Title
The Wild Duck
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful capture of the Mallard duck sitting along shore of a pond like he was posing for me. I have used effects along with textures to create a painterly look to the photo.
The mallard (/'m�l?rd/ or /'m�l?rd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa.[2] This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks. The mallard was one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, and still bears its original binomial name.[4]
The name mallard is derived from the Old French malart or mallart "wild drake", although its ultimate derivation is unclear. It may be related to (or at least influenced by) an Old High German masculine proper name Madelhart, clues lying in the alternate English forms "maudelard" or "mawdelard".Masle (male) has also been proposed as an influence.
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March 1st, 2015
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