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Hybrid duck?

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Mallard and pacific black cross, or something different? Taken at Mill Park Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
Mallard and pacific black cross, or something different? Taken at Mill Park Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
 
With the white eye and the bluish bill, maybe it is a cross with a hardhead.....
 
Its deinitely not a mallard-black duck hybrid, they look pretty much like a mallard, I think it might be a domestic duck/black duck hybrid. I don't know if hardheads can breed with mallards/black ducks.
 
Hybrid duck

Looks to me like domestic [mallard-type] x domestic Muscovy Duck. Look at the shape & stance.
 
I would have said domestic.
 
If domestic, then why would it have a beak colour/pattern like a hardhead?

it doesn't. It has a pale band on the beak but it is not the same pattern as the pale band on a white-eyed duck's beak.

It is just a domestic duck.
 

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