Is my colored duck a duck?

I live by a large river, which is currently raging due to the downpour of the past couple days.

There are white ducks, mallard ducks, and one rooster looking thing I can't identify.

It's white, and black. It has a red face, with a comb that is speckled white and black.

I can't figure it out. Did some mutant rooster decide to live among the ducks. Perhaps it will turn into a swan (but it better hurry because it's pretty big and still not attractive.)

Does anyone know what this might be?

RUN!
They are evil!!!!!

OH NO....I JUST MOVED THERE!

Fuck the ducks!

Ewwwwww....

cool.

(I'll get out my books later).

Is it a chicken?

ROFL

Shawnee, we need pictures.

Does it look like a duck?
Does it quack like a duck?
Is there duck poop on your pickup truck?
Then you can bet your bottom buck it ain't no armadillo.

no info....just a photo

Wow. That looks like a Devil Duck.

They are. They are freed, genetically modified, farm ducks.
They are not supposed to be in the wild, do not function properly and dump TONS of phosphates into our water supply every year (I live on a chain of lakes).
Lots of people from up north lobbied to keep us from killing them because they thought they were fucking "Cute" and were FEEDING THEM! They remove the real ducks from the lakes and rivers due to destruction of their environment and over-feeding. When I lived on the lake I still trapped and killed them.
Damn transplants keep buying them and releasing them... which is illegal also, but they don't care... they don't buy mallards and wood-ducks, just those damn muskogee ducks. They are a trash animal. The feral population needs to be eliminated humanely if possible.

Remember... the ones released in the US have been "modified".
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/ducks/muscovy/

Here you can see what a true, wild, bird looks like, compared to the vermin we, in the US, deal with.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/Musc/BRKScobies.html

Ok...So I have issues with these ducks... they are trashing my town and idiots are helping them do it.

ok, now you;re just trying to get quoted

I don't see it.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage
They are not supposed to be in the wild, do not function properly ...

So, as far as ducks go, this one's a quack!

lumberjim wrote:

no info....just a photo

That is definitely the same thing.

Rkz...those pics on your link look a bit different. I think those photos might be females and the one by me is a male (rooster comb and all.)

Who would have thunk? He seems to get along quite nicely with the other ducks.

I knew I would find help here. Thanks all!

Rkz, just noticing you're in Florida...

How in the hell did one of those birds make it all the way into Ohio do you s'pose?

Shawnee123 wrote:

Rkz, just noticing you're in Florida...

How in the hell did one of those birds make it all the way into Ohio do you s'pose?

I just flew in last night. Boy, my arms are tired!

Da dum dum!

Take my duck, please.

yes, but why a duck?

Shawnee123 wrote:

Rkz, just noticing you're in Florida...

How in the hell did one of those birds make it all the way into Ohio do you s'pose?

Some fucking moron purchased one at a feed, or pet, store and released it. Most likely because they thought it would be cute for a holiday or kid like morons do.

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