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re: Help! Mexican whistling duck invasion.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:14 am to Icansee4miles
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:14 am to Icansee4miles
House with a ten ac lake behind it off i210 between Nelson Rd and Lake on southside. They have hundreds if not a thousand out there any morning.
They are no different than the invaders from south of the border
They are no different than the invaders from south of the border
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:51 pm to Taxman2010
Pond?
I’ve got these crazy ducks hitting my deer feeders.
Goofy looking as all get out when about 20 of those are bopping around, eating corn, and just getting fat. Ponds are hundreds of yards away.
I’ve got these crazy ducks hitting my deer feeders.
Goofy looking as all get out when about 20 of those are bopping around, eating corn, and just getting fat. Ponds are hundreds of yards away.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:54 pm to Graton
Tell them "You have to go quack".
Posted on 4/29/24 at 2:18 pm to Koolazzkat
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Hell, they won’t even let us shoot em during teal season. It’s like they want them to take over?
I welcome them Fine eating
Posted on 4/29/24 at 2:24 pm to KemoSabe65
If OP has 8, after they hatch a few broods this Spring, he is gonna have 48. I find these birds kinda cool though in a way because they literally know how to adapt better than any duck I have seen and although invasive, they are invasive in a good way. You ever eat one and you will probably never want to eat another duck. Plus they got legs like a turkey. In fact I think the winner of the Gumbo Cookoff in Stuttgart used whistling ducks. The only downside is they migrate at the first sign of a cold front so unless it is a mild October you can’t really get into them when real duck season starts which begs the question why we can’t shoot them during Teal season?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:07 pm to Icansee4miles
Same here. I counted 20+ in my backyard along the lake. They fly off when I cut the grass then just come on back as soon as I finish.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:40 pm to MWP
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The only downside is they migrate at the first sign of a cold front
Where are you located? Because I see literally thousands in the dead of "winter" on Lacassine NWR. I've never seen black bellies migrate.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:42 pm to MWP
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they literally know how to adapt better than any duck I have seen
Yeah they are certainly not very specialized when it comes to nesting. They will nest in a cavity or on the ground. That’s why they are successful. About like a dove, which will build a nest on three sticks, a flower pot, or the ground.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:45 pm to Cowboyfan89
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Where are you located? Because I see literally thousands in the dead of "winter" on Lacassine NWR. I've never seen black bellies migrate.
The ones in north Louisiana definitely migrate south after they nest Some of The ones in south Louisiana stick around all year but They will go nocturnal real quick come
Big duck season
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:47 pm to Ron Cheramie
Friend of mines dad in Monroe shot a fulvous whistler (tree duck back then) around 1998 and it was the talk of
The town
The town
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:29 pm to Ron Cheramie
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Friend of mines dad in Monroe shot a fulvous whistler
I split between Monroe area and Eastside of Houston. I will say a Fulvous is a rarer bird than the Black Bellied Tree Duck that we are all talking about in this thread in either area.
Our Black Bellied tree ducks are stacked like cord wood in the rice around Winnie in September. However we struggle to see them come the opener of South Zone in Texas which is always the first weekend in November. I mean they literally disappear. I guess they must migrate about like Mottleds and move more East-West than North-South because I swear there are some golf courses around Houston that get overrun with them in Winter over here and it sounds like there isn't a shortage of them over in SW LA. I have never shot one in Monroe but know there are a shite ton of them over on Woodsland and quite a few on BDCC as well.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:55 pm to No Colors
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There have been some clever and amusing trolls and "faux" characters on this board.
But he's not one of them.
He's basically LARPING being as obnoxious as possible just to see what happens
Triggered much?
8 isn't much of an invasion. There are hundreds on my neighbor's 5 acre pond behind my property. My neighbor across the street throws seed for birds, such as the mockingbirds, doves, a few mallards that hand around. Now every afternoon a hundred or so of these things fly over there and my house is directly under their flight path. Talk about nails on a chalk board
Posted on 4/29/24 at 5:15 pm to Graton
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How do I (preferably legally) get rid of these things? I have around 8 of them hanging out in my pond every day. I never had this problem until I established a mallard population.
first you make a roux, then use a good pellet gun with scope to snipe them right at dark so no one sees you collect them to remove the evidence
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:58 pm to Graton
Where ya live Baw? I’ll take care of ya problem for ya!
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:17 pm to Graton
Aren’t the Whistlers the one who likes eating apple snails? Do you have a lot of snails in your pond?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:22 pm to Cowboyfan89
quote:after opening day they seem pretty smart
I don't know if I've ever seen a bird as dumb as a whistler.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:21 pm to Graton
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So it's only gonna get worse. LDWF just needs to let us treat them as feral hogs at this point.
Let us shoot them, sans limit, during teal season.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:23 pm to Skeet Mc
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Aren’t the Whistlers the one who likes eating apple snails? Do you have a lot of snails in your pond?
Those are limpkins and snail kites.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:26 pm to keakar
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first you make a roux, then use a good pellet gun with scope to snipe them right at dark so no one sees you collect them to remove the evidence
True, but if you get pinched it's a federal rap (for shooting migratory birds with a rifle, after shooting hours, and out-of-season) and your arse could be put in a deep sling. You won't go in front of some Billy Bob local yokel judge, but a federal magistrate who generally "don't play." Some South Louisiana politician found this out the hard way several years ago.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:07 am to Cowboyfan89
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I don't know if I've ever seen a bird as dumb as a whistler.
I will give it to them they are smart enough to high tail it off the lake the week before big duck season starts. They need to be on the teal season list.
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