Gagging Mallard

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.

This mallard behaved in a very strange fashion (see video), as if it had something stuck in its throat and couldn’t dislodge it.


[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]

The sound of the mallard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)

Distribution and sightings of the mallard across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the mallard across the British Isles

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