name: Mallard Duck

flavor_db_name_variants: mallard duck

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Mallard duck

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name_scientific: Anas platyrhynchos

description: "The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand and Australia. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae. The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are gregarious. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks."

itis_id: 175063

wikipedia_id: Mallard_duck

picture_file_name: 358.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 164203

picture_updated_at: null

legacy_id: 385

food_group: Animal foods

food_subgroup: Poultry

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2018-01-18T03:18:03.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

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updater_id: 2

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 8839

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00353