Ducks, Not Geese
The "News & Record" (Greensboro) also reports today that the NC Zoo hatched five African pygmy geese July 31, "the first of their kind born at the NC Zoo".
The paper repeatedly refers to the African Pymgy geese as "the geese". Most correctly, they are "the ducks".
African pygmy geese are ducks, one of the perching ducks, along with white-winged wood ducks, Mandarin ducks, Indian pygmy geese and green pygmy geese. And white-faced whistling ducks, I understand, just might be geese.
Understand?
The paper repeatedly refers to the African Pymgy geese as "the geese". Most correctly, they are "the ducks".
African pygmy geese are ducks, one of the perching ducks, along with white-winged wood ducks, Mandarin ducks, Indian pygmy geese and green pygmy geese. And white-faced whistling ducks, I understand, just might be geese.
Understand?
posted by Russ Williams at
11:39 AM
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