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Musk Ducks

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Subject: Musk Ducks
From: "roger curnow" <>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:33 +1000
A couple of points relating to G's posting :   
                            The youngest were still hitching rides with their mother on April 16.
                            This would mean they hatched 1st April at latest I would guess.
 
                            There is a second mature (or almost so) male downstream on Gungahlin Pond.
                            Despite the absence of females it too was displaying madly at the week-end.
                            I guess Canberra  Musk Ducks don't know one season from another..
 
and a third,
                            the shape is dependant not only on camera angle
                            but also on whether the bird is in display mode. 
                             This is the same bird as in Geoffey's posting.
                             
                             
 
 
               roger
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