The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is revisitinga ruling on Muscovy ducksto allow the duck to be bring up on farms and in other small - scale configurations .
“ When we issue proposed regulating to regularise Muscovy duck in 2008 , few people commented on them , ” read George Allen from the FWS ’s Division of Migratory Bird Management , who publish the ruling and its proposed change . “ However , after we finalise regulations last March , many people contacted me about their vexation with the regulation . ”
Tobi Kosanke , who keeps Muscovy ducks on her farm in Hempstead , Texas , is one of the mass who has expressed concerns with the March 2010 regulation as well as the current revision .
“ This rule makes it illegal for soul to keep favored Muscovies in their mansion or yard and for subdivisions and golf game course to keep their pet duck’s egg populations . It also make it illegal for counties and metropolis to place Muscovy ducks on their pond , ” she aver .
“ There are better style to solve this problem , such as making it illegal for them to be sell or given away at funfair and flea mart , ” she says .
The problem of Muscovy ducks being released into the state of nature , she contend , results from a minor minority of irresponsible preferent owners . Because of this , she consider the majority of people who keep Muscovy ducks as pets suffer under the current regulations and the regulations should be change to oblige this mathematical group of Muscovy duck proprietor .
Kosanke also believe the Muscovy duck’s egg should not be controlled by the Union political science .
“ Muscovy duck’s egg job that be in the U.S. should be address by specific counties and State : local trouble , local solution , ” she says . “ What I witness particularly inappropriate is that Mallards , who do migrate and are also a nuisance in local pockets of the U.S. , do not have a control order and are not required to be marked . ”
aboriginal to Mexico , the Muscovy has arrange up natural habitats in parts of Texas . Although the Muscovy duck is not a migratory chick in the U.S. , the Migratory Bird Treaty Act protect all naturally occurring Anatidae list in Mexico and Canada ’s treaties , says Allen . It also does not take into account wild versus domesticated birds .
“ We do n’t have the alternative of regulating some Muscovies and not shape others , ” he says . “ What we can do is put rule in place that accommodate the uses of which we are cognisant . ”
Allen has the task of balancing viewpoints like Kosanke ’s with the view of body politic wildlife agencies that do n’t want the Muscovy duck , which is alien to most of the U.S. , to be introduced to the wild .
“ I fuck that Muscovy are not the problem that many other introduced metal money are , but I do n’t call up we should approve their expiration in locations where they are not native , ” he says .
While the current ruling does not require that feral populations of Muscovy ducks in parking lot or pool be ensure , it does provide land and local entities to control them . This authority was already useable to the state before the Muscovy duck strike under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act .
In the meanwhile , Allen says , the FWS has asked the Law Enforcement Division not to impose the prohibition on keeping Muscovies in diminished operations .
