Weird stuff fetches up by the Mystic. I've seen, over the years, a chicken, a greylag goose, and now today, the latest in feral waterfowl, a Muscovy duck. This is not a bird that's particularly on my radar, and so I would know nothing about it if it weren't for Wikipedia. So, for the record, this creature is a duck native to the Americas south of the Rio Grande, known to scientists as Cairina moschata, and known in the barnyard as Mucovy duck, or Barbary duck -- because, of course, it has nothing to do with either Moscow or the Barbary Coast. It has long been domesticated, and like all domesticated fowl, comes in a wide variety of formats.
Now, you can say it's not a Massachusetts species, and still less a Somerville species, but I don't care -- it's going on my list.
