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Shouldn't the section on breeding habits have a little more detail about the "normal" breeding habits of mallards? Neutrality would seem to require that all of the more interesting and usual stuff be placed in some sort of perspective.
What's with this sex description? It belongs in some topic like animal sexuality and not in an encyclopedic description of a bird. It's one thing to have a short sentence on it's unusual sex habits but entirely another to explicitly and repeatedly describe them. It's definitely out of balance and not a neutral point of view. TimWhitehouse 05:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
We've recently got a large increase in the number of duckling pictures. However although the yellow one is cute, is it actually a Mallard? Again in the 59 day juvenile picture, there is one duck which doesn't look much like a Mallard (or is that what makes it a Dutch Mallard). I imagine they are all from the same brood, so could this one be a cross. -- Solipsist 12:04, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
This form is not generally recognised as a separate species from the nominate race, either in Wildfowl or Handbook of the birds of the world. the only difference is size, which varies clinally. I propose changing the text to reflect this, but invite comments first. jimfbleak 16:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there a sub-species that can be cited here? Wonko the Sane 19:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Should the fact that mallards are eaten as game be mentioned? 143.252.80.100 21:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
4534
5345 Can we have a main picture that has both a male and a female duck? Seems slightly "sexist" to have the male as the main picture.-- Ķĩřβȳ ♥ ♥ ♥ Ťį534534 Ø 06:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't "mallard" normally be in lower case, like moorhen, coot, etc.? Pol098 12:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Can we get a rewrite? The present text is very much a gut-level appeal that has little to do with science.
Like elsewhere worldwide the invasive alien mallard ducks are also causing severe “genetic pollution” of South Africa’s biodiversity by breeding with endemic ducks.
How exactly do you "pollute" a "gene" (read: genome)? Has natural selection suddenly ceased to function? Are Mallard and YBD specially created baramins? The notion of "genetic purity" is knee-jerk nonsense; in South Afrika in particular such unscientific shite is best left to the AWB...
The hybrids of mallard ducks and the Yellow-billed Duck are fertile and can produce more hybrid offspring.
Or the can have lower fitness and have less offspring on averade than purebreds of either species. In which case the issue will a) resolve itself (on a purely genetic level, but see below) and b) actually improve fitness of the YBD population by introducing new alleles that may be beneficial. The crucial point is: mallards hybridizing around has been happening for 100,000s of years and apparently never caused problems.
If this continues, only hybrids will occur
Do we have data? Because the YBD and the Mallard are (among Anas sensu stricto) only very distantly related. The most parsimonious assumption is that hybrids are less vigorous than purebreds of either species, and this assumption must be falsified before such claims can be accepted.
The case of A. superciliosa on New Zealand shows that even between Mallards and (one of?) their sister species - they were a single species just a million years ago! - hybrid vigor is reduced. It has been shown that hybrids between the Mallard and the American "mallardines" are more likely to die from disease than either parent species. But the NZ case shows also what really is the underlying problem: habitat destruction.
So the real culprit is not the fictional "pollution" of the gene pool but the very real pollution and destruction of wetlands.
and in the long term this will result in the extinction of various indigenous waterfowl worldwide like the yellow billed duck of South Africa.
Oh really? Clairvoyance is real now or what?!
In short, it has been shown for the Mexican Duck, the Mottled Duck, the NZ Anas superciliosa, and Meller's Duck that the supposed "Mallard problem" is simply mallards piggybacking on wholesale habitat alteration. Preserve enough habitat, and the supposed "genetic pollution" will simply go away. Dysmorodrepanis ( talk) 15:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I have shoot a high quality picture of a male mallard, but since I don't know which picture to replace (if any) I'll leave it to you to include it in the article if appropiate.
Image: Mallard 080508.jpg
Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Mallard_080508.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soasta ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot of mallards on-campus where I go to school and I've noticed them group up in rather odd ways. Though many are seen roaming around solo, I notice groups of one male and one female, two males, two males and one female, three males and one female, but never two females together or anywhere near a balanced mix of males and females in large groups (though I rarely see more than four in a group at one time). If this is common mallard behavior (females not "socializing" with other females, quite unlike the males), it would be worth mentioning in this article, IMO. RobertM525 ( talk) 04:30, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
i am confused, the article says all duck species are derived from the mallard, but now the mallard is crowding out local species all over the world? if the mallard is crowding all of these other species out, how did the other species form in the first place? have mallards been manually introduced into new locations where they never went before? i feel like there is something missing from the article...( Torder ( talk) 13:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC))
There are many dead links to footnotes in this entry. What happened to the footnotes?
Aleksandros ( talk) 12:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I removed the sentence which said young ducklings weren't naturally waterproof (relying instead on their mothers for the necessary oils) as this Journal of Avian Biology article shows that information to be incorrect. MeegsC | Talk 20:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
isn't the mallard AKA the "royal" duck? If so, this article should mention it, and there should be a "Royal duck" redirect page to this article.
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I have a mallard picture that I think would be good to download(in fact I have it as my desktop picture right now). Where should I go to upload it? 8th sinn —Preceding unsigned comment added by 8th sinn ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Galleries are discouraged on WP, so I added template Template:Cleanup-gallery to the section named Gallery. Since many images are relevant for the behavior of mallards, I propose remaking the section to a Behavior section adding text to illustrate various behaviors. Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 21:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Please do so. This rather needs a behaviour section, preferably a well-researched one. I think the images can, however be removed—they all are, I trust, at Wikimedia Commons, so they can be added later. — innotata ( Talk • Contribs) 21:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Innotata, please assume good faith. TomCat4680 ( talk) 20:25, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Your refusal to work on this article because you think there would be too much vandalism. That's assuming bad faith. I don't see a history of vandalism on this article anyway. TomCat4680 ( talk) 02:07, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
My girlfriend swears she saw mallards in a creek here in Michigan today. But this article says they fly south to Mexico and Latin America between Sepember and May. What gives? TomCat4680 ( talk) 20:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I just got rid of some spam on the top of the page. Donald202 ( talk · contribs)
Nominated December 6 2010;
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The sentence "The mother will leave the juveniles, knowing that they can fully fend for themselves." (italicising is mine) may be objectionable on the grounds that it anthropomorphizes the evolutionary process. This objection has been made elsewhere in Wikipedia, eg, in the article about the Wombat. Old_Wombat ( talk) 09:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
According to most definitions of species, organisms fertilely (sp?) interbreeding are not different species, particularly when the interbreeding is taking place "naturally". Allens ( talk) 15:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article on the Mallard Duck looks fairly complete and follows the format of a typical WikiProject Birds article. There are plenty of pictures and there are even videos. A missing category that chapter 5 covers is competition for food. The article discusses the types of foods the ducks eat, but does not mention how ducks will settle into a stable distribution between feeding patches and reaches an ideal free distribution by examining the numerical prediction. It could also discuss how overall intake rate and prey mortality risk should equal out at feeding sites. The paper that the article could site is from David Harper (1982). Overall, the writing appears neutral and is clear. Looking at the talk page, an audio file would make the article more complete. Also the talk page shows that one of the pictures in the article was the picture of the day and represents a quality image. The mallard duck is part of many wikiproject pages. Looking at the history page, it seems as though the mallard duck article has undergone many revisions, having over 1000 changes. Compared to the other articles I looked at, it has far more even though it is only rated as a B class article, when others have already reached FA class. Zhangt2413 ( talk) 19:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Apparently, the female is called a "Jill" - I don't want to ruin a perfectly good entry, but perhaps someone could confirm this and include it in an appropriate place. 217.75.24.105 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:31, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
If forced copulation among ducks is considered rape, shouldn't it be murder when one drowns as a result? Marshalljc ( talk) 10:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
If a rapist accidentally kills a woman while raping her, I'm pretty sure he would be charged with her murder, but that's beside point. We don't call it murder when a non-human kills regardless of the circumstance for the same reason we shoulnd't talk about non-humans raping each other. Rape is the act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally conceived as a crime committed by a man against a woman, but now often extended (under various legal systems) to include other kinds of forced sexual activity by persons of either sex. Marshalljc ( talk) 11:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I propose that we add that the Mallard Duck is the only duck to practice Cannibalism, just for the hell of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BHUDS238 ( talk • contribs) 23:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
The Mallard duck is shown as not inhabiting the island of Newfoundland (the large island on the eastern portion of Canada), yet they are in fact present in the province. Aside from the anecdotal evidence of seeing them myself there (which I know doesn't particularly count for that much), there are photos of mallards taken in Newfoundland and shared here [2] and here [3].
Andrew W 21:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew9623 ( talk • contribs)
There is a little about range of winter travel in north America. Can more be found, to improve the article, about speed of flight, migration distances and even movements during a day? SovalValtos ( talk) 19:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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Okay I will take a look. I will make straightforward changes as I go and jot questions below:
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That's what jumps out at me as necessary at first. Will check with other bird editors about content. Am trying to give this a big a push as possible towards FA-hood. It is a big complex subject, so keen to get it right. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Chiswick Chap: and @ Casliber: I have addressed the issues mentioned. (Did not write about The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck due to it being a duck, as I mentioned earlier, and the music too) Adityavagarwal ( talk) 02:25, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
NB: earwigs has what I suspect is a false positive from a Wikipedia mirror
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I recently removed some stuff about Peking duck because that, like most other duck dishes, is normally made with the meat of domestic duck, not of this wild species. It's been put back in the article. Does it have any relevance here? I see no reference to mallard or any other wild duck in the sources cited. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:31, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
OK, I've got my pedant hat on: isn't "mallard" an invariant noun (yes, I know that's a red link), like snipe, grouse, wigeon and so on? As in "there are mallard on the pond"?
There seems to be a good deal of fairly random trivia in the page – about musical compositions, about ships, about children's books. Does any of it tell us anything at all about this species? Wouldn't it be better placed in the respective articles on those topics? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
One other thing: it will be difficult for uninvolved editors to see what we are discussing given that you have deleted a large chunk of it without consensus. I suggest we put it back, without prejudice, so that everyone can see the situation and decide what to do on the basis of the evidence. My proposal, given the above agreement about the species, is to provide a brief (one paragraph) section, with a "main" link to Domestic duck, summarizing the role of the "Domestic duck in culture". The rest of the material directly on Mallard of course belongs here. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:47, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
I've changed the wording on one of the pictures from "fledgling" to "juvenile", as this bird clearly has no flight feathers (meaning it hasn't yet fledged). I also have issue with the photo currently also labeled "juvenile" that shows two supposedly female juveniles in Paris. For one thing, the closer bird is a male, not a female (as indicated in the picture's description) – a female would have an orange bill with a black saddle, not a yellow-green bill. And I'm not convinced these aren't just adults in eclipse plumage; none of the critical features for distinguishing immature birds from adults (i.e. flank feathers) are visible here. MeegsC ( talk) 20:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
It would be great if we could get this article to an FA level. It looks like a very important article to me, so we could improve any issues present in the article, it would help the article reach an FA level. So, do you feel there are any issues with the article (would be better to improve them before going to the next stage)? Never been through an FA before, so posting it in the talk page, just like the FA-page says.
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As this is already a GA with lots of media, I'll just drop these videos here and defer to other editors to decide whether/where to include. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:01, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
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Shouldn't the section on breeding habits have a little more detail about the "normal" breeding habits of mallards? Neutrality would seem to require that all of the more interesting and usual stuff be placed in some sort of perspective.
What's with this sex description? It belongs in some topic like animal sexuality and not in an encyclopedic description of a bird. It's one thing to have a short sentence on it's unusual sex habits but entirely another to explicitly and repeatedly describe them. It's definitely out of balance and not a neutral point of view. TimWhitehouse 05:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
We've recently got a large increase in the number of duckling pictures. However although the yellow one is cute, is it actually a Mallard? Again in the 59 day juvenile picture, there is one duck which doesn't look much like a Mallard (or is that what makes it a Dutch Mallard). I imagine they are all from the same brood, so could this one be a cross. -- Solipsist 12:04, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
This form is not generally recognised as a separate species from the nominate race, either in Wildfowl or Handbook of the birds of the world. the only difference is size, which varies clinally. I propose changing the text to reflect this, but invite comments first. jimfbleak 16:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there a sub-species that can be cited here? Wonko the Sane 19:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Should the fact that mallards are eaten as game be mentioned? 143.252.80.100 21:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
4534
5345 Can we have a main picture that has both a male and a female duck? Seems slightly "sexist" to have the male as the main picture.-- Ķĩřβȳ ♥ ♥ ♥ Ťį534534 Ø 06:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't "mallard" normally be in lower case, like moorhen, coot, etc.? Pol098 12:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Can we get a rewrite? The present text is very much a gut-level appeal that has little to do with science.
Like elsewhere worldwide the invasive alien mallard ducks are also causing severe “genetic pollution” of South Africa’s biodiversity by breeding with endemic ducks.
How exactly do you "pollute" a "gene" (read: genome)? Has natural selection suddenly ceased to function? Are Mallard and YBD specially created baramins? The notion of "genetic purity" is knee-jerk nonsense; in South Afrika in particular such unscientific shite is best left to the AWB...
The hybrids of mallard ducks and the Yellow-billed Duck are fertile and can produce more hybrid offspring.
Or the can have lower fitness and have less offspring on averade than purebreds of either species. In which case the issue will a) resolve itself (on a purely genetic level, but see below) and b) actually improve fitness of the YBD population by introducing new alleles that may be beneficial. The crucial point is: mallards hybridizing around has been happening for 100,000s of years and apparently never caused problems.
If this continues, only hybrids will occur
Do we have data? Because the YBD and the Mallard are (among Anas sensu stricto) only very distantly related. The most parsimonious assumption is that hybrids are less vigorous than purebreds of either species, and this assumption must be falsified before such claims can be accepted.
The case of A. superciliosa on New Zealand shows that even between Mallards and (one of?) their sister species - they were a single species just a million years ago! - hybrid vigor is reduced. It has been shown that hybrids between the Mallard and the American "mallardines" are more likely to die from disease than either parent species. But the NZ case shows also what really is the underlying problem: habitat destruction.
So the real culprit is not the fictional "pollution" of the gene pool but the very real pollution and destruction of wetlands.
and in the long term this will result in the extinction of various indigenous waterfowl worldwide like the yellow billed duck of South Africa.
Oh really? Clairvoyance is real now or what?!
In short, it has been shown for the Mexican Duck, the Mottled Duck, the NZ Anas superciliosa, and Meller's Duck that the supposed "Mallard problem" is simply mallards piggybacking on wholesale habitat alteration. Preserve enough habitat, and the supposed "genetic pollution" will simply go away. Dysmorodrepanis ( talk) 15:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I have shoot a high quality picture of a male mallard, but since I don't know which picture to replace (if any) I'll leave it to you to include it in the article if appropiate.
Image: Mallard 080508.jpg
Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Mallard_080508.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soasta ( talk • contribs) 16:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot of mallards on-campus where I go to school and I've noticed them group up in rather odd ways. Though many are seen roaming around solo, I notice groups of one male and one female, two males, two males and one female, three males and one female, but never two females together or anywhere near a balanced mix of males and females in large groups (though I rarely see more than four in a group at one time). If this is common mallard behavior (females not "socializing" with other females, quite unlike the males), it would be worth mentioning in this article, IMO. RobertM525 ( talk) 04:30, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
i am confused, the article says all duck species are derived from the mallard, but now the mallard is crowding out local species all over the world? if the mallard is crowding all of these other species out, how did the other species form in the first place? have mallards been manually introduced into new locations where they never went before? i feel like there is something missing from the article...( Torder ( talk) 13:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC))
There are many dead links to footnotes in this entry. What happened to the footnotes?
Aleksandros ( talk) 12:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I removed the sentence which said young ducklings weren't naturally waterproof (relying instead on their mothers for the necessary oils) as this Journal of Avian Biology article shows that information to be incorrect. MeegsC | Talk 20:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
isn't the mallard AKA the "royal" duck? If so, this article should mention it, and there should be a "Royal duck" redirect page to this article.
--
Jerome Potts (
talk)
06:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I have a mallard picture that I think would be good to download(in fact I have it as my desktop picture right now). Where should I go to upload it? 8th sinn —Preceding unsigned comment added by 8th sinn ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Galleries are discouraged on WP, so I added template Template:Cleanup-gallery to the section named Gallery. Since many images are relevant for the behavior of mallards, I propose remaking the section to a Behavior section adding text to illustrate various behaviors. Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 21:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Please do so. This rather needs a behaviour section, preferably a well-researched one. I think the images can, however be removed—they all are, I trust, at Wikimedia Commons, so they can be added later. — innotata ( Talk • Contribs) 21:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Innotata, please assume good faith. TomCat4680 ( talk) 20:25, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Your refusal to work on this article because you think there would be too much vandalism. That's assuming bad faith. I don't see a history of vandalism on this article anyway. TomCat4680 ( talk) 02:07, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
My girlfriend swears she saw mallards in a creek here in Michigan today. But this article says they fly south to Mexico and Latin America between Sepember and May. What gives? TomCat4680 ( talk) 20:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I just got rid of some spam on the top of the page. Donald202 ( talk · contribs)
Nominated December 6 2010;
Comments:
The sentence "The mother will leave the juveniles, knowing that they can fully fend for themselves." (italicising is mine) may be objectionable on the grounds that it anthropomorphizes the evolutionary process. This objection has been made elsewhere in Wikipedia, eg, in the article about the Wombat. Old_Wombat ( talk) 09:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
According to most definitions of species, organisms fertilely (sp?) interbreeding are not different species, particularly when the interbreeding is taking place "naturally". Allens ( talk) 15:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article on the Mallard Duck looks fairly complete and follows the format of a typical WikiProject Birds article. There are plenty of pictures and there are even videos. A missing category that chapter 5 covers is competition for food. The article discusses the types of foods the ducks eat, but does not mention how ducks will settle into a stable distribution between feeding patches and reaches an ideal free distribution by examining the numerical prediction. It could also discuss how overall intake rate and prey mortality risk should equal out at feeding sites. The paper that the article could site is from David Harper (1982). Overall, the writing appears neutral and is clear. Looking at the talk page, an audio file would make the article more complete. Also the talk page shows that one of the pictures in the article was the picture of the day and represents a quality image. The mallard duck is part of many wikiproject pages. Looking at the history page, it seems as though the mallard duck article has undergone many revisions, having over 1000 changes. Compared to the other articles I looked at, it has far more even though it is only rated as a B class article, when others have already reached FA class. Zhangt2413 ( talk) 19:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Apparently, the female is called a "Jill" - I don't want to ruin a perfectly good entry, but perhaps someone could confirm this and include it in an appropriate place. 217.75.24.105 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:31, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
If forced copulation among ducks is considered rape, shouldn't it be murder when one drowns as a result? Marshalljc ( talk) 10:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
If a rapist accidentally kills a woman while raping her, I'm pretty sure he would be charged with her murder, but that's beside point. We don't call it murder when a non-human kills regardless of the circumstance for the same reason we shoulnd't talk about non-humans raping each other. Rape is the act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally conceived as a crime committed by a man against a woman, but now often extended (under various legal systems) to include other kinds of forced sexual activity by persons of either sex. Marshalljc ( talk) 11:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I propose that we add that the Mallard Duck is the only duck to practice Cannibalism, just for the hell of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BHUDS238 ( talk • contribs) 23:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
The Mallard duck is shown as not inhabiting the island of Newfoundland (the large island on the eastern portion of Canada), yet they are in fact present in the province. Aside from the anecdotal evidence of seeing them myself there (which I know doesn't particularly count for that much), there are photos of mallards taken in Newfoundland and shared here [2] and here [3].
Andrew W 21:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew9623 ( talk • contribs)
There is a little about range of winter travel in north America. Can more be found, to improve the article, about speed of flight, migration distances and even movements during a day? SovalValtos ( talk) 19:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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Okay I will take a look. I will make straightforward changes as I go and jot questions below:
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contribs)
21:56, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
That's what jumps out at me as necessary at first. Will check with other bird editors about content. Am trying to give this a big a push as possible towards FA-hood. It is a big complex subject, so keen to get it right. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Chiswick Chap: and @ Casliber: I have addressed the issues mentioned. (Did not write about The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck due to it being a duck, as I mentioned earlier, and the music too) Adityavagarwal ( talk) 02:25, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
NB: earwigs has what I suspect is a false positive from a Wikipedia mirror
1. Well written?:
2. Factually accurate and verifiable?:
3. Broad in coverage?:
4. Reflects a neutral point of view?:
5. Reasonably stable?
6. Illustrated by images, when possible and appropriate?:
Overall:
I recently removed some stuff about Peking duck because that, like most other duck dishes, is normally made with the meat of domestic duck, not of this wild species. It's been put back in the article. Does it have any relevance here? I see no reference to mallard or any other wild duck in the sources cited. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:31, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
OK, I've got my pedant hat on: isn't "mallard" an invariant noun (yes, I know that's a red link), like snipe, grouse, wigeon and so on? As in "there are mallard on the pond"?
There seems to be a good deal of fairly random trivia in the page – about musical compositions, about ships, about children's books. Does any of it tell us anything at all about this species? Wouldn't it be better placed in the respective articles on those topics? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
One other thing: it will be difficult for uninvolved editors to see what we are discussing given that you have deleted a large chunk of it without consensus. I suggest we put it back, without prejudice, so that everyone can see the situation and decide what to do on the basis of the evidence. My proposal, given the above agreement about the species, is to provide a brief (one paragraph) section, with a "main" link to Domestic duck, summarizing the role of the "Domestic duck in culture". The rest of the material directly on Mallard of course belongs here. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:47, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
I've changed the wording on one of the pictures from "fledgling" to "juvenile", as this bird clearly has no flight feathers (meaning it hasn't yet fledged). I also have issue with the photo currently also labeled "juvenile" that shows two supposedly female juveniles in Paris. For one thing, the closer bird is a male, not a female (as indicated in the picture's description) – a female would have an orange bill with a black saddle, not a yellow-green bill. And I'm not convinced these aren't just adults in eclipse plumage; none of the critical features for distinguishing immature birds from adults (i.e. flank feathers) are visible here. MeegsC ( talk) 20:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
It would be great if we could get this article to an FA level. It looks like a very important article to me, so we could improve any issues present in the article, it would help the article reach an FA level. So, do you feel there are any issues with the article (would be better to improve them before going to the next stage)? Never been through an FA before, so posting it in the talk page, just like the FA-page says.
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As this is already a GA with lots of media, I'll just drop these videos here and defer to other editors to decide whether/where to include. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:01, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
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"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."
What are the 'characteristic colors'? 162.199.148.71 ( talk) 05:23, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
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