Mariana Mallard Body

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Alyssa Smith
Mrs. Bolt
ELA 5

Mariana Mallard, Anas oustaleti

The Mariana Mallard body's are dark and have paler heads and dark facial stripes. Their weight is around 1 kilogram and mostly grow to about 55 cm. They lived on the Mariana Island before they became extinct. The Mariana Mallard female and males are very similar in many ways. The males and the females have dark brown feathers and have orange feet. The ducks mostly eat plants and seeds so called as corn, rice, oak seeds, and elm seeds. ( eol.org, beautyofbirds.com, whatdoduckseat.com )

The Mariana Mallard became extinct because of the draining of the wetlands. The Mariana Mallard needed a place where the lands are covered with water called

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