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Oh Mandarin Patinkin, where have you gone? This handsome fella once graced the pond in Central Park and captured the hearts of New Yorkers and ID’ers alike.
Mandarin Patinkin, also known as the Central Park mandarin duck or the “Hot Duck“, is a male mandarin duck seen at the Pond in New York City‘s Central Park starting in late 2018. Its colorful appearance, which contrasted with native waterfowl, combined with its presence far outside of the species’ native range of East Asia, led to media attention from late 2018 through 2019. Though it has a band around its leg, its origin is undetermined. Its last sighting was in March 2019.
While we are known to hunt ducks in :id: on occasion, we would never consider throwing so much as a brick at our good friend, Mandarin Patinkin.
Or our good friend Mandy Patinkin, for that matter…
Matt (verified owner) –
VERY GOOD DUCK PIN THANKS 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🆔🆔🆔🆔🆔