[mou] My exotics list

[Chad Heins]

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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