this is on the top of my to kill list!! how common are these in tx? There's 2 pair in my buddies pond. And i've never heard of any one shooting them. I hope they stay till duck season

Beautiful birds. From what I understand, they are birds that escaped captivity and don't really migrate much. I've never seen any except for local birds on ponds.

oh ok... thanks for the input, that makes since why i've never heard of ppl shooting them lol

i still think i'd make a beautiful mount fo sho!

I've heard of populations in California that are escapees that are hunted. Shit don't wait bust them now

Choot em!

Didnt they shoot one on a Duck Commander video?

It's on his fire place

It's either one of those or a Egyptian wigeon

Yeah, you can shoot them, they just aren't common.

Just pull a Foiles.

ya they were in the pond with the local wood ducks, I dont wanna shoot it now. i'd like to see them as populated as wood ducks.

I knew what u are talkin bout but I'm pretty sure the duck above phil's fire place is a mandarin duck. But been several years since I've been there so could be wrong

Yea when I was their I remembered their being one but couldn't remember which it was

Did he put them out, or did they just show up?

If a bird is pen raised you can shoot it any time you like, if you can prove it's pen raised...



Jase shot one in DC 9

they just showed up.. that mount is awesome..

If you look at just the body on those...they have a lot of coloration and pattern just like a wood duck.

Isn't it a chinese wood duck

Rambo you some of those in the hole for us Saturday morn?

Do they look like that this time of year? You just took those pictures? Or did you borrow them?

i don't care what it is called but if i see one it's gonna be a dead orange duck byrd that gonna end up on my wall

Just don't shoot it with a .270. Even a good taxidermist won't be able to put the pieces of that one back together.

good advice CB i will use my 7mm

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The NO zoo had a bunch of them pre katrina.

Think he is saying they got loose...

Not sure but I doubt they got them out. Went the year before katrina and saw them then. They may have been clipped because they were not penned up.

I'd be getting the hell away from NOLA first chance i got too

The first hunt and first retrieve my lab did was a mandarin. They're not very common. I hear that people have em as pets and they escape.

I say leave 'em and let them populate. They won't go far if they were from the zoo or pets to start with.

Would love to have one mounted and put in the living room

If you want them to hang around I would use plenty of corn!

the water level is serious problem in tx.. there is now a green wing teal , two pintails along with the 4 manderin and local woodies all in his pond 30 yards from there swimming pool.