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Youth bags a black duck in Osage County
Published: 11/20/2012 9:06 PM
Last Modified: 11/23/2012 3:36 PM


William Dworsky, 12, holds the black duck he shot in Osage County Tuesday.


The duck laid out at Exclusively Animals taxidermy shows the identifying markings of a drake black duck.

William Dworsky, 12, of Missoula Montana bagged an unusual prize while hunting some Osage County ponds Tuesday with his father and with guide and World Outdoors pro tips contributor Jack Morris.

He shot a black duck drake.

“We see them every once in a while but this one is just immaculate,” Morris said. "It's absolutely perfect."

Morris and the Dworskys took the duck to Sapulpa taxidermist Steve Smith to have a mount made.

Black ducks are most common in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways.

Similar in appearance to a hen mallard the ducks are darker in the body with lighter brown plumage on the head and a dark eye-line. Also unlike the mallard the violet-blue speculum on a black duck’s wings has a darker edge while a mallard's has distinct white borders. The male black duck has a yellowish bill while the female’s is dull green.

Eastern Oklahoma is at the eastern edge of the Central flyway but does get some overlap from the Mississippi flyway at times.



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The Outdoors

Kelly Bostian is an Iowa boy who developed a knack for writing about the outdoors as a college kid - way back when wild turkeys were scarce - at Iowa State University. He comes to Oklahoma by way of Alaska, where he worked 23 years as outdoor editor and later managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He comes to Green Country with two beautiful daughters, an extraordinarily tolerant wife, and an 11-year-old female black Labrador retriever named Tag, who knows she's actually the brains behind everything that Kelly does.

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