Neat MallardXsomething...(pics posted)

[Peter Span]

Perhaps you can eat it, it's the only good use for those park things.

[taxos]

in the summertime, these ducks are the ones that invest every pond with botulism, there are just to many half tame ducks around.

[Peter Span]

Yes, they should all be destroyed whoehahahaha

[Brian]

ill tell ya what taxos and peter span, go out and kill some and send em to me.lol. id love to have them.

[2wbdft]

goofy purist types

sounds like some of the conversations i hear about the cuttbow hybred strains of trout that are in some of the lakes around here...people either love 'em or hate them.

[lee, tees valley]

 i dont hate em..i just dont think they are worth mounting. 

[taxos]

its the same as mounting a chicken or your pet dog

[Nancy C]

It isn't a cross. (I don't think)
It looks like a mallard with a piebald mutation. And that it IT. I won't speculate farther because what I can see of the rest of it looks normal.
It might be a domestic cross and it might NOT be. If it were any other species of bird then people wouldn't be ASSuming that it is a domestic bird.
After all, wild piebalds aren't that unusual. I have seen them in a wide variety of species. ALL of the separate color mutations which have been combined in domestic mallards can also occur in 100% wild birds. They did, after all, have to start someplace. Wild birds can be piebald, melanistic, grizzled, crapzochromatic, leucistic, albino ... you name it.

You will usually see additional evidence of a mallard being a domestic cross if it is unusually large, has an extra heavy or short bill, smallish wings, extra-large feet, etc.

[Peter Span]

In Holland these types of domestic crosses are extremely common in the wild, in some places they are even more common than normal mallards. So thats why they are not very popular among naturalists. The same is happening with greylag X domestic goose crosses. These cross mallards have normal body shapes just like normal mallards.

[BeckyBird]

What's wrong with mounting a chicken? For somebody like me who loves chickens, you can't get enough of them!

[armymac26]

odd little guy anyway