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Re: Ducks at Duke Garden
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Ducks at Duke Garden
- From: Jeff Pippen <jspippen@duke.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:28:00 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <39.251cd7e.25fe0e7f@aol.com>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Larry and others,
Sorry to disappoint you, but most of the Duke Gardens birds are not
"wild" birds. They are purchased from waterfowl breeders and are kept
year-round at the gardens. They include a mix of native and non-native
species. A wild bird may ocassionally stop at the pond in the winter,
but I wouldn't "count" much, if anything, from that pond. They are,
however, still fun to watch!
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Jeff Pippen, Research Associate
Botany Dept. Duke University
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 LSBarden@aol.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:27:27 EST
> From: LSBarden@aol.com
> To: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu
> Subject: Ducks at Duke Garden
>
> Louise and I just visited the ponds at Duke Garden this morning for the first
> time. We were amazed to see how tame normally wild ducks are, including (in
> full breeding plumage) a male shoveler, two male pintails, and two male and
> one female hooded merganser. By tame I mean all of them, even the
> mergansers, were eating bread out of peoples' hands. Are these year-round
> resident birds, or will they leave soon for the north? In either case, how
> did they get so tame?
>
> Larry Barden, 1525-F Lansdale Drive, Charlotte, NC 28205, 704-535-6385
>
>
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Jeff Pippen jspippen@duke.edu
Botany Dept. Box 90342
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 PH: (919) 660-7278
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