Posted by Susan Epps on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
Years ago I used to visit a friend at John Knox Village in Pompano Beach. They had a pond with several species of exotic waterfowl. Birds and the bees. Though the original birds were pinioned, they were breeding and the young were free-flying. I sent Bruce Anderson photos of baby apparent Fulvous Whistling Ducks. I say apparent because a Fulvous and a black-bellied were always together acting like a pair with the ducklings following them. The black-bellied could have been another female enjoying the young or the babies could have been hybrids. I don't know since my visits ended before the birds were fully grown. So I think the reports of exotics from a pond in Broward are important because there may be youngsters in the future. I lost everything in Katrina in Mississippi so I no longer have notes or photos. It was before 2001. I first saw a flock of Egyptian Geese on a golf course in Broward in 1999. Again, I lost notes and photos but I remember there were at least a dozen of them.