Albino Duck

Hippo · 26-01-2006 5:23pm #1

There's one in Stephen's Green. How rare is this?

Funsterdelux · 26-01-2006 5:47pm

maybe its a goose, or a very small swan

Hippo · 26-01-2006 7:43pm

It's a duck, and it's being escorted by ducks!

i71jskz5xu42pb · 26-01-2006 7:54pm

Hippo wrote:

It's a duck, and it's being escorted by ducks!

Maybe it's a young sawn that, by some freak accident, is being reared by ducks? I seem to remember reading something like this in the past.

Was it somewhat ugly compared to the other ducks?

Hippo · 26-01-2006 9:12pm

Genuinely, it looked like a perfect duck to me. Unmistakable bill, and not particularly ugly

Hippo · 27-01-2006 9:12am

Got a good look this morning. Have a look for yourselves, he/she's in the pond at the Grafton Street gate with two males in constant attendance.

boneless · 28-01-2006 4:00pm

Could be an escapee domestic or an albino. It does happen.

Funsterdelux · 01-02-2006 5:27pm

boneless wrote:

Could be an escapee domestic or an albino. It does happen.

Is it still there and where exactly

RobertFoster · 01-02-2006 5:35pm

Any pictures of it?

Hippo · 01-02-2006 9:39pm

Sadly my sister has disappeared on holiday with the camera. You should find him where I said, at the pond beside the Grafton Street gate. Had a good close look at him yesterday morning. Didn't see him this morning, but there were hardly any ducks around anyway, maybe something to do with the JCB in action on the footpath.

Funsterdelux · 02-02-2006 4:12pm

I saw the lily white duck today its true

Hippo · 02-02-2006 4:44pm

Hurrah! I'm not hallucinating.....

Funsterdelux · 16-02-2006 3:36pm

It could be a domestic duck gone native!

Nala · 23-02-2006 11:35am

It's probably a domestic duck that's escaped. Last time I was in Stephen's Green there were loads of pieds (the domestics cross with the wild mallards, the result is a mallard-like duck with white patches).

Hippo · 23-02-2006 12:08pm

Not ruling that out obviously, but he is totally white.

Albino Duck

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