From Newsgroup: rec.birds

The Inside Edition show had a story about ducks being kidnapped from
ponds with the working theory they're being eaten by desperate people
during the Covid crisis. They even showed a clip of a duck being taken
from someone's private pond. Stealing ducks is supposed to be a
"misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine" but I don't know if they only meant in
the place where they filmed it (San Diego).

Pretty disgusting at any rate, they showed a female mallard walking
around searching for her mate, mallards mate for life.
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