{"id":314,"count":2,"description":"The Muscovy duck (<i>Cairina moschata)<\/i>\u00a0is also known as the Barbary duck and was originally native to Central and South America. In other parts of the world they have been farmed for meat and feral populations have become established in some countries including the Netherlands where they inhabit lakes, ponds and low-lying\u00a0farmland. Muscovy ducks are surface feeders eating water plants, small fish, crustaceans and insects. They are large ducks with clawed feet and\u00a0varying degrees of white and black plumage.The males have a large reddy-pink caruncle at the base of the orange to red bill and the wing feathers may have a greenish sheen.\r\n\r\nThe name Barbary duck is\u00a0sometimes used to refer\u00a0to Muscovy ducks bred for meat.\r\n\r\nThere is more information about the Muscovy duck (<i>Cairina moschata<\/i>) available <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscovy_duck\">here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u00a0","link":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/species\/muscovy-duck\/","name":"Muscovy duck","slug":"muscovy-duck","taxonomy":"diersoorten","parent":310,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/diersoorten\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/diersoorten"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/diersoorten"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/diersoorten\/310"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwhc-dev.wp.hum.uu.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?diersoorten=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}