At my urging, The Record posted my Mandarin Duck column last Friday, almost a week early but waited till its normal print schedule to run it. 

I updated it on Monday to reflect the fact that the duck had been seen in Edgewater and North Bergen.

You can read the column in today's Better Living section, or online here.

To see where the Mandarin duck is being spotted, check out David Barrett's Twitter feed here. His Manhattan Bird Alert was first to report the released duck's presence, back in October.

Thanks to Fred Virrazzi for the photos.