RIVERVIEW, Fla. — For Kayla Toole, it was love at first cuddle. “I knew the second I picked up those first two ducklings that I was a duck person,” she said with a smile. Toole now owns eight ducks.

What Does a Muscovy Duck Look Like? People seeing a muscovy duck for the first time often do a double take, due to their heads which are covered in fleshy red caruncles (more prominent in males).

Winter Park is looking to evict a both beloved and bemoaned waddling and invasive resident of its lakes. It’s the Muscovy duck, which has lived in lakes and ponds across Florida for generations. The ...

A Muscovy duck shakes water loose from its feathers at Coral Reef Park in Palmetto Bay, Florida, on Thursday, April 13, 2023. D.A. Varela [email protected] Following outrage over the killing of ...

Muscovy duck reovirus (MDRV) causes high morbidity and mortality in ducklings. However, the molecular basis for pathogenesis of this virus remains poorly understood, and the complete genome sequence ...