This duck makes no sense, like another Republican governor giving an apology speech for something or other. Check “it” out:
This unfortunate-looking creatrure lives in Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. I do not know if it can fly. It was nearly twice as large as the nearby assortment of Mallards and faux Mallards that obviously carry the genes of other races and species. The duck melange at Stow Lake is ever-changing, a Darwinian stew of waterfowl DNA. A few years back somebody had dumped a perfectly normal looking Ringed Teal here. He survived a couple years about four thousand miles north of his normal range in Latin America. Whaddya think?
MY GUESS IS BELOW:
I believe this is a cross between Egyptian Goose and Muscovy. The body and face were almost right colors for Egyptian, then there’s that fleshy knobbly facial stuff going on. So very Muscovite.
You blankety-blank blanky! Probably a mallard-derivative lover the horror. This is a perfectly ordinary Muscovy drake. Color is blue. Through sun-fading the blue pigment (actually fewer eumelanin molecules than wildtype, two doses yields silver) has – guess what – faded; revealing the underlying phaeomelanin pigments which, if alone, would constitute the color mutant chocolate. He will molt soon and get nice blue-looking feathers again.
I remember the teal. Somebody paid $150 for a female for it and I think they both bit the dust soon after that.
This drake is called Checkers or Casper etc and showed up last summer. The drake before him at Stow lasted 8 years. There is a photo of “The Duke” at the Boathouse.
By: dougbaja06 on July 7, 2009
at 9:00 pm
Hmmm, that was interesting. Looks like somethings will always remain mystery.
I myself have been trying to solve the mystery of this legend for a while now. Could not understand much though.
Let me know in case you get to understand the mystery of the Old Hound and the Legend
By the way, good writing style. I’d love to read more on similar topics
By: Tina on July 9, 2009
at 10:19 pm