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This morning (near UC)
in an area where there
would normally be maybe 20 Woodducks and half that number of
Blackducks
and where i have been watching a family of seven
Woodducks for about a month,
I observed 10 ducklings (not much more than a
day old i suspect, that is i hadn't seen then before)
and though i watched
for half an hour no adult came within 100 metres.
The nearest adult ducks were/was a tribe of maybe
nine at least ( i would guess) 150 metres away.
They
(the ducklings) were inspected by a couple of crows and a pair of
currawongs without any adult showing interest.
This was not the behaviour pattern of the parents
of the previous brood.
Is it normal behaviour ?
Is it possible to tell Woodduck from Blackduck at
this age ?
roger curnow
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