Bird Watching (UK)

What’s this odd duck?

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QCan you please identify this odd looking bird I saw at Slimbridge WWT? I know it is one of their collection from around the world but I could not find it on the informatio­n boards. Melvin Cave, Malvern

AIt’s a Muscovy Duck, a native of Central and South America, often found in such collection­s, or indeed on farms or smallholdi­ngs, where it can also hybridise with other duck species. Domesticat­ed examples tend to be black and white, but this has a plumage much more typical of a wild bird (presumably because the WWT sourced it from a pure lineage).

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