Male Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) - a photo on Flickriver

            Naples Botanical Gardens
Southwest Florida
USA

The Naples Botanical Gardens is closed until further notice because of the coronavirus, and the zoo where I volunteer is doing the same. 

Naples Botanical Gardens
Southwest Florida
USA

The mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) or mottled mallard is a medium-sized dabbling duck. It is intermediate in appearance between the female mallard and the American black duck. It is closely related to those species, and is sometimes considered a subspecies of the former, but this is inappropriate (see systematics).

There are two distinct populations of mottled ducks. One population, A. fulvigula maculosa (mottled duck), lives on the Gulf of Mexico coast between Alabama and Tamaulipas (Mexico); outside the breeding season individual birds may venture as far south as to Veracruz. The other, A. fulvigula fulvigula (Florida duck), is resident in central and south Florida and occasionally strays north to Georgia. The same disjunct distribution pattern was also historically found in the local sandhill cranes.

Along the Gulf of Mexico coast, the mottled duck is one of the most frequently banded waterfowl. This is due in part to the fact that it is mostly non-migratory. Approximately one out of every twenty mottled ducks is banded, making it an extremely prized and sought after bird among hunters. 
   

Taken in: United States / Florida / Royal Harbor (show map)

Taken on: March 5, 2020

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