56.5 cm
90 cm
Typical representative
Uniformly scaled by bill-tip-to-tail-tip total length; the pose is not stretched to every descriptive dimension.
Representative Adult Male Mallard
A representative adult male Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) in breeding plumage, shown in a calm folded-wing side profile and a true head-on flight view with fully spread wings. The selected comparison uses a 0.565 m length, a 0.90 m wingspan and an approximate 1.2 kg mass.
Dimensions
- Height
- 32 cm
- Length
- 56.5 cm
- Width
- 90 cm
- Weight
- 1.2 kg
Quick facts
- Length
- 0.565 m
- Wingspan
- 0.90 m
- Weight
- about 1.2 kg
- Plumage
- adult male breeding plumage
Representative Adult Male Mallard · Size infographic
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Sources and measurement22 References
Dimensions were cross-checked against independent sources before publication.
Measurement basis
The side view is scaled by total length and the head-on flight view by full wingspan; side-view height is pose-specific.