Is there a tag to define the regular and continual presence of wildfowl/birds?

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Hi,

I recently noticed that someone had added ducks=yes to a pond near me. This seemed to be way too ephemeral (as I mentioned in the changeset comments) and so it proved a few days later when I passed by the pond and there were no ducks.

However, I have been wondering if there could be a case for something similar to indicate a continued or seasonal presence of wildfowl and/or birdlife. For example a schema to add to existing duck ponds, nature reserves, or wetland centres.

N.B. The only wiki entries that I could find for specific animals (dog, horse) are concerned with access permissions.

Any thoughts?

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There is the key wildlife with few usecases, mainly wildlife=birds (10 uses as per taginfo). This could be added to locations to indicate if certain kind of wildlife may be expected there, probably in combination with seasonal=*.

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I think that that is mostly a joke by one mapper? In the case of ducks it’s unlikely to conflict with an access tag (unless there’s a duck equivalent of “freemen of the city of London can herd sheep across London bridge”?) :slight_smile:

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no-ducks-sign
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ducks=no

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https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIyM1g4MjM=/z/XkwAAOSwPydkdPEm/$_57.PNG?set_id=880000500F

amenity=parking

access=private

private=ducks

ducks=mighty

(I’ll stop with the jokes now, sorry I just couldn’t help myself)