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Posted on 05/09/2012 3:00:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A war against ducks is under way in South Florida where residents of Oakland Park are battling an exploding population, officials said.
Gangs of Muscovy ducks have taken over porches and yards and caused traffic to come to a halt while they waddle across town streets, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday.
Resident Peter Cramer said he jumped into his swimming pool recently to rescue three baby ducklings that got trapped.
"The mother duckling was trying to attack me for saving her stupid little chicks," Cramer told the Sun-Sentinel.
The ducks are considered non-natives to Florida and invasive, so moving them somewhere else is prohibited. A federal rule that went into effect in 2010 placed the Muscovy ducks on a list of federally protected birds.
Oakland Park Mayor Anne E. Sallee said she recently received a threat from residents vowing to band together and stop paying taxes unless the ducks are removed.
"Unfortunately there's not a lot we can do," Sallee said. "You just have to learn to live with it."
The decrease in the duck population is directly inverse to the number of Chinese restaurants serving Peking Duck.
Make that “can’t drive them away, can’t eat them, can’t make a pet.” My n’ts are off tonight.
“... just get a dick dinner”.
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“A federal rule that went into effect in 2010 placed the Muscovy ducks on a list of federally protected birds.”
Well, that’s great for the ducks that are living on federal lands, where the feds’ jurisdiction on matters like this ends. For the Muscovy ducks who have strayed into the sovereign State of Florida, it should be “game on”.
you think ducks are bad... we have HUNDREDS of Canadian geese crapping all over the place year round and you can't touch them but i found a cool way to pizz them off and get them to leave the park if only for a little while
circle them closing the circle a few feet with every revolution till you get them in a tight group then run at them with the wind at your back... it's all flapping and honking and falling over each other trying to take off with the wind!
Aggressive? I guess so. So are geese and chickens. Muscovy ducks are a common domestic breed. Good God, what have we come to? Calculating cocker spaniels? Preying Pekingese? Slavering samoyeds? Raving Rhode Island Reds? Muscovies are decidedly NOT endangered any more than are duroc pigs. #@$%^@&!!
C’mon, folks. We have actual lives to live. sd
UPI brags “Over 100 years of journalistic excellence” illustrates this story with a photograph of a Mallard hen.
Face Palm, Now!
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Now some might now believe popcorn can kill a sparrow, but they died....the larger birds don't have a problem with popcorn.....
When he was a kid (born 1901) and a farm boy, there was a bounty on crows of 5 cents each. But a shot gun shell cost 5 cents so he soaked some grain in whiskey and put it out for the crows....they got drunk and couldn't fly, he then would use one shot gun shell and get about 4 birds...made a profit...those old boys used to know how to get things done.....
There's a lot the citizens can do as well as for the invasive snakes.........just let them do it.
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I suddenly have a mental image of Dumb and Dumber, and they got jobs in government......
Once a year for two weeks they can not fly. That is when you round them up.
Miley Cyrus ?
i wish we could but we can't touch them let alone kill them and even if we could round them up, short of taking them back to northern canada they'd be back in no time... a guy at marina got fined big time for poisoning a bunch of them cause they crap all over the boats in the marina
Take and hammer a decent steel stake in the ground, something sturdy, tie off about a hundred feet of Spectra fishing line, the stuff with about a 120lb breaking strain and very tough to cut.
Tie on the end very securely a ball of pork rind.
its an old story I heard that a duck cannot digest pork, it passes right through their system very quickly, and then another duck swallows the pork, and again, and again.
Set up these duck ropes and soon you will have the whole flock tied up...literally from beak to tail.
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