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New Genetic Studies Reveal that Wild Ducks Are Getting Watered Down
Posted on 11/25/24 at 9:54 am
Posted on 11/25/24 at 9:54 am
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This is interesting and these pen-raised birds could breed the Mottled Duck out of existence, or so I've been told.
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More to the point, the region’s mallard family tree looks more like a weedy garden than a single trunk branching into well-ordered ancestry. Recent genetic research, including the duckDNA study that I and some three hundred other hunters participated in last season, has revealed an alarming amount of game-farm mallard genes in the wild mallard population. They were found in 71 percent of Atlantic Flyway samples, nearly a quarter of Mississippi Flyway mallards, and 12 percent of the Central Flyway birds. The percentage in Great Lakes birds is climbing rapidly.
The culprit: releasing game-farm mallards for hunting, a practice more than a century old. In the Atlantic Flyway alone, millions of the European-stock birds have flown into the wild, cast loose by state agencies—which have since halted doing so—and hunting clubs. For decades, most assumed these farm-raised mallards wouldn’t interbreed with the wild ones, at least not to a concerning degree. Then, in 2019, scientists discovered so-called “mystery genes” in mallards from across North America, later determining they came from game-farm ducks. In subsequent flyway-specific studies, those genes popped up in North Carolina and South Carolina birds. Next, in 2022, low levels of the genes turned up in Mississippi Alluvial Valley mallards, and a year later, in Great Lakes birds, at higher levels.
This is interesting and these pen-raised birds could breed the Mottled Duck out of existence, or so I've been told.
This post was edited on 11/25/24 at 9:56 am
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Posted on 11/25/24 at 10:25 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Ducks are super rapey. I'm not surprised.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 10:33 am to Clyde Tipton
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Ducks are super rapey. I'm not surprised.
...and Mallards are dawgs!
Posted on 11/25/24 at 10:33 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Maybe I will finally be able to call a duck.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:30 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Is that why we don't get any down in South LA? Their instincts are being bred out of them.
Posted on 11/25/24 at 2:34 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I've had to explain to my kids multiple times that the ducks in our pond are just playing around and not really trying to gang rape and drown the hen mallard....??
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