When ducks are adults, you can look for the easy to tell "sex" feather on a male. This is a feather at the top of the base of the tail that has a curl in it. It curls down towards the birds back. If the bird is a male it will have this sex feather.
A drake is a male duck, and the female is simply called a duck, or a hen.
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Most ducks in a flock are referred to as ducks or ducklings. The male duck in called a drake and has bright colors on his neck. The female is just called a duck and is normally brown and dull in color.
The male is called a drake and the female is called a duck or hen.
You cannot tell a gender of a mallard duck when they are ducklings. When they enter their "teenage" years, they start getting markings. Male's head's start getting dark and they get colorful feathers on their tail. Females don't change much they get a blue stripe on their wings. See Related links to see what a male mallard looks like.
A male duck is a drake, a female duck is a hen.
Daffy Duck is male.
A duck is a female and the opposite of that is a drake (male)
A duck. The term "duck" is not gender specific.Edit:- No. The male is called a drake.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for a male or a female.The gender specific noun for a female duck is hen.The gender specific noun for a male duck is drake.The noun 'duck' is a common gender noun as a word for a male or a female of the species.
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A drake is a male duck, and the female is simply called a duck, or a hen.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.A male duck is a drake; a female duck is called a duck or a hen.
A female duck is a duck, whilst the male duck is a drake.
The male is called a drake and the female is called a duck or hen.