We recently received an e-mail from a reader who’s concerned about new regulations from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that would make owning or selling Muscovy ducks illegal — unless the ducks ...

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.

Bigger than mallards and unusual in appearance, the Muscovy duck species is common in Florida and some cities in the U.S.

On one side was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a lumbering bureaucracy out to curb the spread of a pesky fowl; on the other, thousands of duck lovers, breeders and pet owners who feared for their ...

JUPITER — Catherine the Great is a good duck, according Danielle Ohanesian. The female Muscovy duck is blind and would be pecked at by other ducks, so she has taken shelter in Ohanesian's yard at the ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. -- "Irma" the duck, who sat through the worst of Hurricane Irma, probably only had one thought as the winds whipped through. "Not today, Hurricane Irma, not on my watch!" Joy Anne ...

DEAR JOAN: My husband and I found a Muscovy duck at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek yesterday. In researching it, I discovered its home is Mexico, Central and South America. What is it doing here ...

Muscovy ducks, a duck only its mother could love, I always said. But I never stopped to think that momma Muscovy doesn’t have to overcome the sight of those big ol’ red knobs on her babies’ heads. The ...