Rare Waterfowl Hatching at Central Park Zoo
Duck, duck, goose!
Brooklyn’s Central Park Zoo is seeing a baby boom among rare and endangered waterfowl, with chicks from eight rare species having hatched this year. They include nine scaly-sided merganser chicks. The endangered sea ducks are native to Russia, China and Korea.
There are also spectacled eiders, large sea ducks that are native to Arctic Russia and Alaska but whose population is dwindling. The Central Park Zoo has a total of 23 different duck species on exhibit. Most of the species are either uncommon in zoos or endangered in the wild.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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