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Mystery duck (revealed!)

To: "John Brannan" <>, "Mark Clayton" <>
Subject: Mystery duck (revealed!)
From: "John Layton" <>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:33:54 +1000
About ten years back, there was a whistling duck (wandering or plumed, don't remember) on Kellys Swamp. It was suggested to me that it may have been an escapee from the National Zoo. Now, I don't know if the zoo keeps Egyptian Geese but the ones John Brannan saw were in the vicinity of the zoo, I think. If that's the case, I hope no more escape, because they can readily establish in some areas. One time, I was hunting with a rancher in southern Californian when he shot an Egyptian Goose.
 
"Why don't we retrieve it?" I asked. "Because, (and I've sanitised his reply) the jolly foreign things taste like mud."
 
John K. Layton
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