If you had to be a famous duck, who would you be?
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One of my favorite things of 2012 was being introduced to Edd the Duck. Thanks for that Maisie.
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zoogiraffe
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I have just voted other,as I would have to be Chewie Donald Ducks nephew from Star Wars
I quite fancy being either one of a flock of either Pink-headed Ducks or Crested Shelduck, providing conclusive evidence that my species was not extinct, and a founder of a captive breeding project, leading my species becoming widely kept in collections, and restored to the wild in large numbers.
zooboy28
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So basically, you just want to be a duck that does a lot of breeding?
I like your pink-headed duck post FBBird. I was not familiar with this species and found this interesting list of the world's most endangered duck species: CHART: The world's most endangered waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans)
If you had to be a famous duck.....
The whole Pink-headed Duck thing is this: at the beginning of World War 2 there was a captive flock here in the UK [there were also some in France]. All had died by the end of the war. With modern feeding & breeding techniques we could probably have kept them going. As it is, the species never bred in captivity and is probably extinct. My somewhat tenuous connection with the species is that I met the daughter of the holder of that UK flock, and have handled a museum skin. So yes, it's an opportunity lost forever. Rather like the Passenger Pigeon, bred in such numbers in a UK collection in the early 1800s that the owner was letting them out, now gone forever because nobody understood extinction in those days. Thank goodness we had a second chance with the Nene.
The whole Pink-headed Duck thing is this: at the beginning of World War 2 there was a captive flock here in the UK [there were also some in France]. All had died by the end of the war. With modern feeding & breeding techniques we could probably have kept them going. As it is, the species never bred in captivity and is probably extinct. My somewhat tenuous connection with the species is that I met the daughter of the holder of that UK flock, and have handled a museum skin. So yes, it's an opportunity lost forever. Rather like the Passenger Pigeon, bred in such numbers in a UK collection in the early 1800s that the owner was letting them out, now gone forever because nobody understood extinction in those days. Thank goodness we had a second chance with the Nene.
Maisie
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Thanks... now that song's stuck in my head! I don't remember that first time round. Happily wallowing in nostalgia now...
Have you found Gordon the Gopher yet?
