MOLTING MALE MALLARD, HUMBER BAY PARK EAST, TORONTO, ON

   This is a male Mallard molting from eclipse (nonbreeding) plumage to breeding plumage.   The Mallard has much of its breeding plumage, but its head and neck are still in eclipse plumage;  not the green of breeding plumage.  During the molt from eclipse to breeding plumage only the body feathers molt; the flight feathers do not.