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The mallard ( or ) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand , Australia , Peru , Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina , Chile , the Falkland Islands and South Africa . This duck bel

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Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae , which also includes swan s and geese . The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the family Anatidae they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form