Mallard / Summer duck Hybrid

[HT]

Saw this on FB the other day. Beauty..





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[SaltMuck]

That's cool.

[ScoobieMcDoobie]

Is there a reason it's a Mallard/"Summer" Duck hybrid instead of a Mallard/Wood Duck hybrid?
Never heard this term used before.

[wob]

You've never heard wood ducks referred to as summer ducks?


https://ourfinefeatheredfriends.com/...-of-the-south/

The small wood duck is a species of waterfowl that can be found, in suitable habitat, during the nesting season. Unlike Canada geese and mallards, which historically never nested in the region until recent decades, the wood duck is supposed to be present during the warmer months of the year. In many parts of their range, wood ducks are known as the “summer duck” since they are the only wild native nesting duck present during the season.

[Carolina Counsel]

Is there a reason it's a Mallard/"Summer" Duck hybrid instead of a Mallard/Wood Duck hybrid?
Never heard this term used before.

Not intended to be a jab, but are you from South Carolina?

[SpottailSpecialist]

That is gorgeous. Doesn’t even look real.

[Rubberhead*]

I always call them wood ducks but I've heard the term summer duck since I was little - I guess it's my Yankee half. I call red drum "spottails", though.

[GobblerHntr]

Silly nicknames all the kids use to sound cool and “in the know” is all

[wob]

Silly nicknames all the kids use to sound cool and “in the know” is all

My Dad is 84 and killed a bunch of ducks around the Congaree River growing up. I've never heard him or his friends refer to a wood duck as anything other than a summer duck.

[PharmHunter]

Summer Ducks most of my life from all the old timers. And that is one really cool duck right there.

[GobblerHntr]

84 and still one of the cool kids

Ok

Got it

[Highstrung]

My father and his group as well, I've always used the term.. it's good for profiling now. opposite of when you hear someone say redfish or mahi mahi.

[HT]

I'm not young and never been part of the cool kids, but i've called them summer ducks, Woodies, and the occasional wood duck. Summer Duck is still most preferred.

[ziggy]

I always call them wood ducks but I've heard the term summer duck since I was little - I guess it's my Yankee half. I call red drum "spottails", though.

redfish are and will always be spottails

[FOWL MOUTH]

If you haven't used the term summer duck, move back up north...

[nitro5x6's]

Killed some Summer Ducks in No Dak once. The locals thought we had shot the Holy Grail bird. It's all perspective. We plucked , cooked and ate them with greed.

[Gone South]

Ever since I shot one (oos) last year I’ve seen a few posts of mallard wood duck hybrids.

[everlast]

Mallards can be a bit rapey. i guess they've branched out from mallard on mallard violence.

[2thDoc]

84 and still one of the cool kids

Ok

Got it

hey longgunner....
my dad called em summer ducks too.
wanna fight about it?

[JJ1965]

If you haven't used the term summer duck, move back up north...

This.