Mandarin Spotted In Prospect Park Prompts Call For 'Duck Dynasty'

PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN – A very fancy duck spotted in Prospect Park caused quite a stir among the quackarazzi, but it turns out the newly famous Mandarin ducks have been chilling in the Brooklyn zoo for years.

Bloomberg podcast director Francesca Levy posted photos to Twitter Monday morning of a rare Mandarin duck she saw chilling in the Prospect Park Zoo on Saturday as "proof" that the famous East Asian duck who has enthralled Manhattan had crossed the East River.

But in fact the Prospect Park Zoo has been hosting the exotic birds in its outdoor exhibit for years, as Patch reported in 2012.

The celebrity Mandarin also appears to have stuck to his digs at The Pond, as David Barrett, a birdwatcher chronicling the Mandarin duck's Central Park stay on Manhattan Bird Alert, snapped some close-ups of him on Saturday.

At least one New Yorker hoped the feathered phenom would cross the river for a visit to the Brooklyn watering hole.

"Please, please be a mating pair!!" Twitter user Tsarone wrote. "Now that would be a Duck Dynasty worth celebrating!!

Correction: The original version of this story did not include information about the Prospect Park Zoo exhibit.

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