For the first time ever, a pair of Australian magpie geese have been spotted in the wild in Florida — but odds are they aren't wild animals.
The pair showed up at the Hacienda Del Rio retirement community, in Edgewater, just after Hurricane Arthur passed by offshore.
The geese have mostly been a welcomed addition to the ducks and wood storks which are normal visitors in the Volusia County retirement community.
However, they are not native to Florida, and are most likely part of someone's private collection.
If the geese had strayed from a zoo, they would have been banded, which they are not.
Pat Anderson, an Edgewater resident and novice bird watcher, said she didn't know what was in her backyard when they pair first showed up there.
"I went online, to the Audubon Society, and I found them there," Anderson said. "I thought, 'Wow, I wonder how they got here from Australia.'"
The geese do stray from the pond, and have been bothering guests at the one complex pool that is not screened in.
For that reason, the community has been trying to find someone to trap the birds, but so far, the geese have evaded capture.