Hey birders!
Here's my exotics list from Sunday: big white duck (?), Chukar, Common Peafowl,
Black Swan, Mute Swan--all from Blue Earth County. Yes, they were escapees or
domestics but still worth mentioning (maybe the Mutes were a breeding pair--I
didn't lift them out of the water to see if they were banded).
Here's my lifelist for escapees/exotics seen in the field either in Wisconsin
or Minnesota:
Barnacle Goose--flew in daily with a flock of Canada Geese from the Milwaukee
Zoo to a nearby pond I frequently birded
Tufted Duck--Blue Lake Sewage Ponds
Cockatiel
African Gray Parrot
Budgerigar
Canary
Helmeted Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl
Greylag Goose
Common Peafowl--Milwaukee Zoo escapee
Chinese Goose
I think it is worth recording exotics and escapees but it is also worth noting
the circumstances that lead to their occurence.
Happy birding!
Chad Heins
Mankato, MN
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