You’re absolutely right David. Wrong duck, wrong food, wrong altitude …
From: David Rees [
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 10:18 AM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc: <>
Subject: Re: FW: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )
Geoffrey, think you got the wrong bird!! Musk ducks most certainly eat yabbies, Freckled ducks as you say dabble.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:
An algaevore rather than a yabbyvore. Those who have seen this species upend-feeding at Kelly Swamp
will have a pointer to its filer-feeding habits. It prefers shallow water and soft mud. HANZAB describes it a s a specialist filter feeder. Our own Peter Fullagar’s observation is that the ‘bill is held just above bottom .. head scything from side to side’.
Moreover: ‘rapid pumping movements of the tongue cause food particles to be sucked in near tip and stream of water expelled from sides of recurved bill’.
From: shorty
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Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 7:42 AM
To: Philip Veerman
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )
Thanks all,
Philip, Tantangara Reservoir is higher and would be suitable as it it has Yabbies as well, 3 mile dam at 1468 m could be suitable but i am unsure that there would be a suitable
food source there.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
My geography knowledge is modest but are there many lakes in Aus, (let alone within the geographic
range of the Musk Duck), that are at a higher altitude than
Lake Eucumbene
for a MD to choose, even if it wanted to be observed at a higher altitude than
Lake Eucumbene?
Philip
From: David
McDonald (personal) [
Sent: Sunday, 29 January, 2017 9:10 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] High altitude Musk Duck ( out of town )
A glance at the Atlas of Living Oz does not seem to reveal any higher records - David
On 29/01/2017 5:39 PM, shorty wrote:
G'day all,
I was at Lake Eucumbene on the weekend and came across a Musk Duck. The lake is almost 1200 m above sea level and looking at ebird it seems the highest record i can find. The habitat
suits them as the lake is full of Yabbies.
Just curious if anyone who doesn't use ebird has recorded them at this altitude or higher?
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