About Australian Spotteds The picture to the left is a Bluehead female Australian Spotted. Australian Spotted Bantam Duck is considered one of the rarest ducks. Because the Australian Spotted is a bantam duck they will weigh 30-38 ounces at maturity. They are a beautiful duck that has three color varieties. Greenheads, Blueheads, and Silverheads (referring to the color of the adult drakes head).  Greenhead males have an emerald green head with a white neck collar and chestnut coloration on the upper chest and sides of body. Female Greenheads have a base body color of frosted fawn and are heavily spotted with brown and black, while their underbody, neck ring, face stripes, and chest are white. Both sexes of Greenheads have beautiful blue wing speculums. The Bluehead males have dark blue-gray heads with white neck collars, and females are a nice fawn-buff color throughout their body with blue-gray spots. Both sexes of Blueheads have a beautiful blue wing speculum. In Silverhead males, the head is silver and neck collor is white.  Silverhead females posses a delicate salmon body color with silver spots. Both sexes of Silverheads have silvery wing speculums.  The breed was developed by the late John C. Kriner, Jr. along with Stanley Mason in Pennsylvania during the 1920's. Australian Spotteds came out of a cross of Mallards, Calls, Pintails, and a wild Australian duck. Conformation is in between the wild Mallard and the compact Call. Females are excellent mothers and typically lay 50-125 eggs per year.  The broody females can be useful in hatching out other breeds of ducks who posses no interest in setting.  The pictures at the top of the page as as follows: the top left is an Australian Spotted duckling, the middle picture has two female Bluehead Australian Spotteds with a male Greenhead Australian Spotted, and the top right has a female Silverhead with a male Silverhead behind her and a male Greenhead to the right of her. Some of the pictures don't show their true vivid coloration due to poor lighting and the time of year.   We'll have better pictures in the spring.