Duck ID
- Thread starter Campbery
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Don't tell that to the Liberals, what would they think if they heard you trying to keep ethnics out of Canada.
Good call on the Egyptian Goose, I wonder how it got into the country? As an egg or from a ship?
We have some funny looking ducks around our place, wild interbred with domestics.
A few oddball ducks and geese make it here from time to time, either imported illegally, or escaped from captivity or sometimes they just plain get lost.
My local taxidermist has shown me a few weirdo ducks, one that looked an awful lot like that one.
My local taxidermist has shown me a few weirdo ducks, one that looked an awful lot like that one.
Yes the Egyptian goose is indeed a member of the sheldrake family.
More than likely it is an escapee from a private collection or zoo. A very long shot is that it is part of a breeding population that have gone feral. (England has had a breeding population in the wild for nearly 100 years)
They will crossbreed with other ducks or geese as well as other types of birds. In a zoo in England they had one that bred with a damn penguin of all things and the 2 silly critters pair-bonded and had several broods over a number of years. Thankfully the birds were so far apart genetically their offspring were sterile.
More than likely it is an escapee from a private collection or zoo. A very long shot is that it is part of a breeding population that have gone feral. (England has had a breeding population in the wild for nearly 100 years)
They will crossbreed with other ducks or geese as well as other types of birds. In a zoo in England they had one that bred with a damn penguin of all things and the 2 silly critters pair-bonded and had several broods over a number of years. Thankfully the birds were so far apart genetically their offspring were sterile.
