Always the mallards made their wide circles of inspection; but always Mr. Kincaid waited patiently for them, ignoring absolutely other ducks that in the meantime lit among the decoys.
This has resulted in a dabbling duck breeding population that is much smaller than what the available food supply could support, and in the large-scale development of artificial rearing of mallards for later shooting.
Specialization is used in the biological sense to compare a versatile species like mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) with a less versatile species such as the trumpeter swan (Olor buccinator).
Some Mallards are quite as gray as the average Gray Call Duck.
Wherever at any time in the history of the world male and female wild Mallards happened to be caught and kept in captivity, a domestic race might be developed.
For the Oak-flie, you must make him with Orange-tauny and black, for the body, and the brown of the Mallardsfeather for the wings.
A little later, the northern ducks, blue-bills, andmallards had come down in immense flocks.
The nearer shore was massed with teal, and a few yards beyond a big pack of mallards were daintily pluming themselves.
When he talks of a tiro regular--an ordinary shot, we know he means about thirty couples of mallards with one barrel.
Besides partridge and rabbits, an odd pair of mallards will often rise from some rushy hollow, and from the drier reeds a quail or two spring with their smart game-like dash.
The Coots and Mallards have eggs in March, the Purple Heron early in April: on the 9th we found the first nest, merely an armful of the long green reeds bent down, and containing one blue egg.
Now the ten-bore is useful for a string of mallardswhich are already seeking safer altitudes, and for a couple of curlews, for once at fault.
The result, seven mallards and eleven teal, was a satisfactory climax to a pleasant campaign under adverse conditions.
It is a matter of serious regret to many a sportsman and one entailing loss to the longshore shooter that the numbers of our common Wild Ducks or Mallards are each year becoming less.
Mallards manifest bird chivalry and courtesy to perfection--the drakes industriously finding mussels for their sober-coloured mates, not because these are not able to find for themselves but because the males consider it their place to do so.
Young pintails, on the other hand, acquire complete sexual dress in the autumn, as mallards do, by November.
Few mallards are obtained at the first shoot, but their numbers increase as the winter advances.
Add the domesticated mallards that swim about in so many parks and you have the most urbanized of the ducks that can still claim a wild heritage.
I expect the mallards will migrate northwards, and the teal soon afterwards will become very scarce, but I hope the bitterns will stay where they are.
These people put the size of the flock of teal at a hundred and fifty and the mallards at five hundred, but you should, I think, multiply the first by a hundred and the second only by ten.
And about eighty miles north of here there is a mud flat where great numbers of mallards are assembling for migration northwards: and there are more bitterns there than there are higher up even.
Eventually I went to sleep and dreamed that I was hunting Mallards with a fly-rod baited with a stale doughnut.
The only thing that bothered me was a couple of odd-looking guys who thought that the way to hunt Mallards was with shotguns, and their dress was just as out of taste as their equipment.
In the cloudless sky swallows and swifts were wheeling, and on the water half a dozen mallards moved aside to let him pass.
Without the line of the shoals and islets, now that the mallards had flown, there was a solitude of water.
Only too often, peer as cautiously as we might, the wily old mallards would catch a glimpse of some slight motion.
The chorus praising this particular spot was vociferous and unanimous, I wonder what the mallards thought of the other fifty or sixty in my flock, the wooden ones, that sat placidly aloof.
The mallards could not be expected to turn a deaf ear to this commotion.
Their tiny size gives the impression of great speed, but mallards can fly faster.
Their diet is mostly vegetable, and grain-fed mallards or pintails or acorn-fattened wood ducks are highly regarded as food.
From my view, there are happier instincts than those which impel migration; but remembering that personal views are best applied to personal use, I wish both maids and mallards bon voyage.
This kind of life seems fitted for mallards and maids, and I have no quarrel with either.
Other kinds of ducks there were, in plenty, but the mallards at this season kept to themselves.
These two were the only mallards in this whole wide expanse of grass and water.
The Nest of the Mallard When the spring freshet went down, and the rushes sprang green all about the edges of the shallow, marshy lagoons, a pair of mallards took possession of a tiny, bushy island in the centre of the broadest pond.
A worse row than all the mallardsyou grumble at could make in a thousand years will spoil your roost to–morrow night.
There are no cranes or sheldrakes and, except for a few flocks of mallards which feed in the rice fields, we saw no other ducks or geese.
Mallards were frequently to be found with the sheldrakes, and we had good shooting along the river and in ponds and rice fields.
We saw a flock of mallards alight in the short marsh grass and when I fired at least five hundred greenheads, yellow-nibs, and pintails rose in a brown cloud.
In addition to the standard breeds and varieties flocks of Mallards are also kept to a limited extent.
By selecting the large eggs for hatching and by liberal feeding, it is easy to increase the size of Mallards to such an extent that they resemble small Rouens rather than wild Mallards.
Call ducks, together with East Indias and Mallards should have their wings clipped or be pinioned, that is, have the first joint of one wing cut off, to prevent them from flying away.
Any breeds may be used, and often the gay colored Wood Duck and Mandarin, or some one of the small breeds such as the Calls, Black East Indian or the Mallards are kept for this purpose.
The mallards and the black ducks brought up the rear; while far behind a cloud of blue-winged teal whizzed down the sky, the lustrous light blue of their wings glinting like polished steel in the sunlight.
In a moment the blue-wings had passed the quacking mallards and black ducks as if they had been anchored in the sky.
Once a pair of mallards winged by on a straight course above his head.
Mallards do not have to have aeroplanes to cover distance quickly.
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