Northern Pintail and Ring-necked Ducks

You don't always have to go too far or look too feverishly to find avian excitement.

Northern Pintail.

Recently, a subscriber and family friend gave me a hard time about my affinity for ducks. Particularly, for my assertion that most people assume all ducks are probably Mallards, don’t know one from the other. I wrote:

To the average person, a duck is a duck. That word, to them, is basically synonymous with Mallard—and by no fault of the…