Closing Bell: Prospect Park's Wild Turkey
Okay, all you amateur ornithologists out there: is this a real wild turkey, resting on a branch near the Prospect Park lake? Might be a good place to look for dinner if the stores run low (although the photo’s from spring). Have a good Thanksgiving. Photo by kmf221.
Okay, all you amateur ornithologists out there: is this a real wild turkey, resting on a branch near the Prospect Park lake? Might be a good place to look for dinner if the stores run low (although the photo’s from spring). Have a good Thanksgiving.
Photo by kmf221.
muscovy duck? in the US?
Maybe in a rent-control apartment in Brooklyn Heights but not in Prospect Park.
Don’t know. Guess I’m just remembering the white-head and ugly red face. Hadn’t looked at the bill and don’t know sea-ducks all that well.
“The common eider is a large sea-duck”. Don’t you think the bill on the muscovy duck looks too short to be this one, RaginCajun?
Look at the shape of the bill, Inigo. That is no gull. Fancy word or no fancy word. And the eider I am familiar with are not geese, and they frequent Cape Cod bay. I am also too lazy to go get my bird book, but just look at the upturned bill and save yourself the trouble.
Yall sure are city slickers. Muscovy duck. http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_en___US234&q=muscovy+duck&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
an eider is a fancy word for a goose. this is not a duck or a goose, c’mon. it is a gull, don’t make me get my “birds of north america” to tell you specifically what type of gull. this guy probably lives in red hook and flies to the park now and then for a little r and r.
That is a duck or eider, definitely NOT a seagull.
Definitely a seagull. I’ve seen plenty of wild turkeys and ringneck pheasants, and a few deer, in the Bronx. And coyotes in Westchester. Brooklyn is pretty weak when it comes to wildlife. The biggest wild animals I’ve seen around here are possums and raccoons.
Saw a turkey in Battery Park on Monday.