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janiedoe said:
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I want these! But that Price!!!
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To my wife and I these are wildlife and they fly in every winter and leave around early summer. Frequent scratch nabbing things but they are cool in the fact they form monogamous pairs. Being native wildlife to Texas I have questions if they would be legal to own in this state.

Whistling "tree" duck is kind of funny, I usually only see them in puddles of water or on roof lines and naturally grazing the grains we throw as scratch, but never in trees. Additionally, it isn't part of their name, Mexican whistling Duck is one name as well. Regardless, with the genus and species id below you can read more.

They are incredibly flighted so you would have to take care of that aspect. I have no clue where they want to go during our summers and autumns, but without clipping those flight feathers I suspect any recently tamed whistling ducks might have the urge to go there. Copy and paste is from our World Birding Center in the RGV.


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AllenK RGV said:
To my wife and I these are wildlife and they fly in every winter and leave around early summer. Frequent scratch nabbing things but they are cool in the fact they form monogamous pairs. Being native wildlife to Texas I have questions if they would be legal to own in this state.

Whistling "tree" duck is kind of funny, I usually only see them in puddles of water or on roof lines and naturally grazing the grains we throw as scratch, but never in trees. Additionally, it isn't part of their name, Mexican whistling Duck is one name as well. Regardless, with the genus and species id below you can read more.

They are incredibly flighted so you would have to take care of that aspect. I have no clue where they want to go during our summers and autumns, but without clipping those flight feathers I suspect any recently tamed whistling ducks might have the urge to go there. Copy and paste is from our World Birding Center in the RGV.


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We have wild ones that fly in every year and pose for photos. They are so comically beautiful.
I would, in all honesty, never buy them. That price would just about guarantee their doom from predators.
They are tempting but PASS!
 
AllenK RGV said:
Just a Texan note, even if you do not live in HEB land, this pepper is the bomb and I am sure it can be mail ordered these days. No freshly milled mix seems to compare. I suspect @Texas Kiki @007Sean and @RUNuts can vouch for me on this. Sorry for the low quality image.
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I have some but I prefer the Fiesta Brand coarse pepper which I just ran out of yesterday.
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