Forum: Photography

Subject: What is this?

Fred255 opened this issue on Jul 14, 2007 · 21 posts

Fred255 posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 12:41 PM

Now I know is not a great photo, at the time of taking I was hanging onto a tree trying not to fall into the pond. I was just wondering from one of the bird experts we have here what bird it is I have never seen anything like it?

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nongo posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 12:49 PM

I saw one of these when I visited Maui, a couple of years ago, maybe the Hawaiian's on RR could tell us?????? punaguy?? sharky?? volunteer???

Fred255 posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 1:06 PM

I took the photo ar Bodium Castle if that helps.

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awjay posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 1:43 PM

*i dont know what he is but i think ive met his brother....

duck *

Fred255 posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 1:49 PM

Well yes come to think of it he was looking lost and lonely. Maybe we can organize a reunion

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danob posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 2:03 PM

Muscovy Duck, *Cairina moschata *

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Fred255 posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 5:56 PM

Thanks Danny! I tried looking it up in a book of British bird , I got knowhere! Now I know why it comes from Mexico! Know wonder it looked lost and lonely!

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Fred255 posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 6:00 PM

Muscovy duck

The Muscovy duck is a large perching duck which is native to Mexico and South America.

This species normally inhabits forested swamps, lakes and streams, and often roosts in trees at night. The wild Muscovy duck is all-dark apart from the white in the wings, with long talons on its feet and a wide flat tail.

The male is 86cm long and weighs 3kg, much larger than the 64cm long, 1.3kg female. His most distinctive features are a bare red face with a pronounced caruncle at the base of the bill and a low erectile crest of feathers. The drake has a dry hissing call, and the hen a quiet trilling coo.

info from http://www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk/docs/animals/ducks.htm

So What it was doing in the mote of Bodium Castle is anyones guess

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danob posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 6:19 PM

Like most species of Duck they were transported all over the place I saw them on my Visit to Bodium as well and they are quite popular if a tad ugly

Danny O'Byrne http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt

awjay posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 7:13 PM

*mine was in Poole Park ,Dorset...

beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... ;)*

bclaytonphoto posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 9:52 PM

we had a lot of them when I lived in Virgina...

they are quite funny to watch..

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ejn posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 3:20 AM

Out of cuiosity is the second image with the white face also a Muscovy duck,if so I saw one on the Leeds - Liverpool canal in Lancashire

alhak posted Sun, 15 July 2007 at 6:59 AM

muscovy ducks are wonderful..i used to have one for a pet, she thought she was one of the dogs and would race out with them with her tail wagging whenever we arrived home .....

Fred255 posted Fri, 20 July 2007 at 5:23 AM

Now I know what it is. My mum asked me the next important question. What does it taste like?

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