Mallard Ducks  ( Anas platyrhynchos ) are most common duck in North America bur are also found throughout much of Europe, Asia and Africa. It is easy to tell the males from the female mallards. Most male mallards have grayish or brownish feathers, a green colored head, and a purple breast. On the other hand, the female is only brown and white and is smaller than the male. The length of the normal mallard is about 20.5 -28 in.  

The mallard duck is found mostly in North America and Northern Central America. 

Mallards eat various seeds including corn, wheat, barley, bulrushes, wild rice, primrose, willow, seeds of water elm, oak, hackberry, trees of swamps or river bottoms. They will also eat mollusks, insects, small fish, tadpoles, freshwater snails, fish eggs, and frogs.

Although mallard ducks have been known to live as long as sixteen years of age, most of them only live for one or two years.