Mallard duck with drake (Anas platyrhynchos). UK

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

Mallard (Anas Pltyrhynchos), portrait of a sea going Mallard male. Wales UK

Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos) sitting in the snow, drake, male, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Flying Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos) in winter, drake, male, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Mallard duck (Anas plathyrrynchos) with duckling

Flying Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos) on approach, drake, male, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos) walking in the snow, drake, male, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) swims in the water. Hungary

Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) among flowers, Salamanca, Castille and Leon, Spain

Goshawk female on dead mallard, Midlands UK

Bathing Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Slovakia

Coypu and mallard duck, Myocastor coypus, Germany, Europe

Open Wings Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Slovakia *** Local Caption *** I took this picture in afternoon

Male Mallard in flight in winter, GB

Stretching Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Slovakia *** Local Caption *** I took this picture in afternoon.

France. Hunting. The European commission has adopted in january 2021 a ban on using lead 100m around any wetland in Europe. So far in France, the ban is only 30m. In the future, the lead will be totally banned as 6000 tons of lead is put into nature by hunters every year causing death of thousands of birds (here a mallard) eating lead balls.

Love in the rain. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Slovakia *** Local Caption *** I took this picture in afternoon.

France. Hunting. The European commission has adopted in january 2021 a ban on using lead 100m around any wetland in Europe. So far in France, the ban is only 30m. In the future, the lead will be totally banned as 6000 tons of lead is put into nature by hunters every year causing death of thousands of birds (here a mallard) eating lead balls.

Funny Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) on water, Slovakia *** Local Caption *** I took this picture in afternoon.

Male mallard fighting on the lake Leman, Switzerland

Drake Mallard swimming on a pond in autumn- GB

Mallard Duck on the bank, Camargue France