Muscovy Duck (domestic)

The domestic Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata domestica) is a large duck developed from the wild Muscovy of Central and South America. Wild birds are glossy greenish black with white wing patches, but domestic stock varies from all white through pied to nearly black, and the bare face and bill base carry bright red caruncles, sometimes with a knob. Domestic birds are heavier and fly less well than wild ones, though they keep the species' unusual habit of perching and nesting in tree holes. Native Americans kept the bird before Columbus, and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from human and animal remains in the Amazon basin suggest it was being fed maize by around AD 800. It reached Japan as a table bird but never became common; in Okinawa it is kept and has gone feral under the name kannon ahiru. Its hybrid with the domestic duck, the mulard, is sterile.

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The Muscovy Duck (domestic) lives 8-12 years.

The Muscovy Duck (domestic) grows to Drakes 76-84cm and 3-4kg, ducks 71-76cm and about 1.25kg (wingspan 137-152cm).

In the wild form drakes are 76-84 cm long and weigh 3-4 kg while ducks are 71-76 cm and about 1.25 kg, with a wingspan of 137-152 cm.