Birding at the Dinner Table
Last night I was at the Silver Swan for Extreme Tuesday NYC, when I noticed on the menu “Wild Canadian Muscovy Duck”. Methinks someone embellished the menu a little too much. Muscovy Duck is a South American species. While Muscovies are commonly raised on farms, and escaped birds do appear regularly at least as far north as New York, I very much doubt anyone in Canada is hunting them. If they are, they’re doing it in city parks. Either these birds weren’t wild, or they weren’t Muscovies.
P.S. I had the beef.
