Fauna Report

REPORT 1
FAUNA










http://www.copyright-free-pictures.org.uk/animals/birds/mallard-ducks.jpg







The Anas platyrhynchos or more commonly known as the Mallard duck is one of the most populated duck species in the world. They’re actually the most common duck species in New Zealand. They live in nests in tall grass by any fresh body of water; normally female mallards lay about a dozen eggs. It takes about a month for the eggs to develop and hatch. During this process the male mallards stay and become very territorial, but after this the males live to fly with a pack of more male mallards.
Mallards usually travel in couples because we mainly see them during mating season. The only real threat to the mallard’s population would be hybridization, which is when two different species have offspring. This is because when the hybrid offspring are born they are all deformed and will die which wipes out a whole litter to a species.