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Title
Swimming Muscovy
Artist
Norman Johnson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A muscovy duck swimming in the Apopka Wildlife refuge.
Wild muscovy ducks (cairina moschata) are non-migratory birds that are found in coastal and lowland forested wetlands from Texas and Mexico south through Central America and down in to South America to upper Argentina. A feral populations exists in Florida. They prefer fresh water but also live in brackish.
Thay are one of the oldest domesticated fowl species in the world, and were being kept by the natives of Pery and Paraguay when the early spanish explorers arrived. Domesticated versions occur across much of North America in shallow wetlands and rivers. In Florida they are sometimes just called river ducks.
Muscovys forage in shallow wetlands, ponds and lagoons for both plant and animal matter. They eat grasses and sedges, tubers and seeds, as well as insects, larva and adults, spiders, crustaceans, worms, reptiles, etc. In the tropics they feed on termijtes by breaking open their mounds with their bills.
Forest dwellers, muscovys nest in tree cavaties..
The Aztec rulers wore cloaks made from the feathers of the muscovy duck, which was considered the totem animal of the wind god Elecatl.
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