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This is a male and it looks like it might be a mix - black duck and mallard. The black duck is very closely related to mallard but as you can see on this one he still has the touch of purple on the head characteristic of the black duck and the darker chest feathers. His bill also is not the same color as the mallard. I believe there is a lot of cross breeding going on in this pond at Flick Park where I shot this Saturday. I do have a picture of a female black and her babies and you can see differences in coloration in her and the offspring. I'll post that sometime soon.