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r/duck • u/ProfessionalFox4292 • 3d ago
in NYC Central Park yesterday
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This is typical behaviour for Northern Shovelers. They’re swirling to stir up food beneath the surface. I’ve seen them do it singly or in pairs, but never in a cyclone like this, amazing!
100 u/ColoradoFrench 3d ago This should be the top rated answer, as opposed to the funny but silly ones 25 u/ZebraUnion 2d ago I concur! Being ducks, I just took for granted it was some sort of rapey whirlpool mating thing. Glad to read in the first comment that it is not.
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This should be the top rated answer, as opposed to the funny but silly ones
25 u/ZebraUnion 2d ago I concur! Being ducks, I just took for granted it was some sort of rapey whirlpool mating thing. Glad to read in the first comment that it is not.
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I concur! Being ducks, I just took for granted it was some sort of rapey whirlpool mating thing.
Glad to read in the first comment that it is not.
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u/Agitated-Tie-8255 3d ago
This is typical behaviour for Northern Shovelers. They’re swirling to stir up food beneath the surface. I’ve seen them do it singly or in pairs, but never in a cyclone like this, amazing!