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    Default Mallards Observed Killing Other Birds For Food

    Supposedly it's the first time this has been observed.

    Hunting and Consumption of Passerine Birds by Wild Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
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    Survival of the fittest, I guess.

    There was one odd mallard I killed many moons ago on Lake Marion. Got that joker home and went to clean him. I suspected his lumpy neck was full of acorns, but they were snail shells. Not what I'd imagine a mallards eating in that area. Might be common for all I know, but sure seemed strange.

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    "A mallard will eat anything he can get his lips around"- The Old Man

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    Billy goat duck is what they are... That is what I have affectionally called them anyway.

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