The Muscovy

I always wonder why people don't like the Muscovy duck. There are a lot of myths out there.

What prompted this photo taken yesterday was a man on the trail who lives in Murry Hills who stopped to tell me that Muscovies were the reason why none of our wading birds on Lake Osborne have been around in awhile. He was complaining that they had a lot of these lousy ducks down where he lives. I asked him if the disappearance of the wading birds had anything to do with all the rain and the fact that the lake was too high? Did it have anything to do with the fact that the County is mowing down all of their habitats at John Prince Park? "No," he said, "Muscovies eat the eggs of other birds."

Click here to get the real facts on this duck and the nicest article I have read in a long time on the Muscovy.