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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sasquatch Fingers" data-source="post: 3483338" data-attributes="member: 119449">I think the most common ornamentals in the US are swan species, in my experience.In the end, they were mostly obvious ornamental breeds, a wildly out of place Barnacle Goose, and others.  Andy will be please to know that the only one I was considering ticking was the Red-Crested Pochard (one of the examples Farnboro John mentioned) which I found in my pictures from a few days later in an actual marsh (and in large numbers).  Also at that marsh were more than a couple of Northern Shovelers (one of the examples Andy presented), though I had seen them previously in China and California.Thanks for the discussion, folks.</blockquote>