Anas platyrhynchos

Posted 17 December 2012 by

Anas platyrhynchos -- mallard ducks at lunch, Goose Creek, Boulder, Colorado. The male is on the left.

9 Comments

Henry J · 17 December 2012

But where are their heads? Are they mooning us, or what? :)

https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 17 December 2012

Two ducks a-ducking...

Glen Davidson

Charley Horse · 17 December 2012

Henry J....check out the name again...that explains the appearance..:)

Marilyn · 17 December 2012

Cheers :)

ksplawn · 17 December 2012

This picture is a puzzle that highlights a contradictory set of conditions.

It's a pair o' ducks.

Henry J · 17 December 2012

AFLAC!

Kevin B · 18 December 2012

https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad said: Two ducks a-ducking... Glen Davidson
That should be "Two ducks a-dabbling". Does the Latin translate as "flat-nosed duck"? If there is a duck-billed platypus, can we have a platypus-billed duck? "What's the use of half a duck"?

Paul Burnett · 18 December 2012

Kevin B said: "What's the use of half a duck"?
You can get duck decoys from the huntin'-and-shootin' catalogs that look like that - ducks flying over, looking for a safe place to land, think (in duck language) "Must be safe - they're feeding."

doodlebugger · 20 December 2012

Ray Comfort would say that hidden below the waters surface, these birds have crocodilian heads, hence his well known and hilariously nonsensical "crocoduck" argument.:)