The drakes make a soft, nasal quack that sounds like “dweek.” Mallard Duck Feeding Habits. Mallards are dabbling ducks, meaning they skim and tip up to feed on seeds and invertebrates.

Their one-bird-limit status speaks to their decline in population dating back to the ‘50s, a result of habitat loss and interbreeding with mallards. Like their Gulf-Coast cousin, the mottled duck, ...

When you think “duck,” the duck that probably comes to mind (besides Donald Duck) is the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallards are the quintessential duck. They quack like a duck should. They ...

Mallards, wood ducks and blue-winged teal lead the state's harvest. ... Like mallards, they can at times be called to within shotgun range, either by teal-call imitations or by mallard calls.

How to Call Ducks: First, Sound Like a Hen Mallard. More often than not when calling to ducks, you want to imitate the sounds of a hen mallard. Getty Images.

If you’re like most duck hunters, a mallard call is what you want to start with. Puddle ducks and even occasionally divers will work to a mallard call. But if you hunt wood ducks specifically, or ...