mallards are the type of duck that is a yellow duckling.
mallards are the type of duck that is a yellow duckling.
what type of duck is a yellow duckling?
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both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple-blue speculum feathers edged with white, which are prominent in flight or at rest but temporarily shed during the annual summer moult. upon hatching, the plumage of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face (with streaks by the eyes) and black on the back (with some yellow spots) all the way to the top and back of the head. its legs and bill are also black. as it nears a month in age, the duckling's plumage starts becoming drab, looking more like the female, though more streaked, and its legs lose their dark grey colouring. two months after hatching, the fledgling period has ended, and the duckling is now a juvenile. between three and four months of age, the juvenile can finally begin flying, as its wings are fully developed for flight (which can be confirmed by the sight of purple speculum feathers). its bill soon loses its dark grey colouring, and its sex can finally be distinguished visually by three factors: 1)the bill is yellow in males, but black and orange in females; 2)the breast feathers are reddish-brown in males, but brown in females; and 3)in males, the centre tail feather (drake feather) is curled, but in females, the centre tail feather is straight. during the final period of maturity leading up to adulthood (6–10 months of age), the plumage of female juveniles remains the same while the plumage of male juveniles gradually changes to its characteristic colours. this change in plumage also applies to adult mallard males when they transition in and out of their non-breeding eclipse plumage at the beginning and the end of the summer moulting period. the adulthood age for mallards is fourteen months, and the average life expectancy is three years, but they can live to twenty.
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daffy is taking a bubble bath in a pond when he hears the sobbing of a yellow duckling carrying a satchel. when daffy politely asks the duckling what is wrong with him, the rude yellow duckling stops sobbing long enough to emit a loud "aah, shut up!" before opening the satchel and resuming his devastation. when daffy tries to find out what is in the satchel that is causing the yellow duckling so much grief, the ducking tells daffy, "aah, keep your hands off, mister anthony!" (a reference to the host of the radio advice series "the goodwill hour"; see the ending of "baby bottleneck"). even the presence of a hunter does not stop the yellow duckling from stopping daffy with a loud, "aah, lay off, you... duck!"
ain't that ducky