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Muscovy Duck

Cairina moschata

Photo by VeldaSavage
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Field Notes

Description:

Muscovy Duck sitting on a clutch of eggs

Habitat:

Suburban South Florida Community

Notes:

This Muscovy duck, while an introduced species was living and thriving in a South Florida community. There were whole family and flocks of them living as wild animals. This one was sitting on a nice clutch of eggs on a makeshift nest in a planting box at a local bank. A canal ran nearby that these ducks frequented often.

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great pic especially the nest and the eggs good to look at the nesting site
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PublishedAugust 4, 2011

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