-----Original Message-----From:
Roger Curnow <> To:
COG <>
Date: Sunday, 19 December 2004 9:28
Subject:
[canberrabirds] are you my mother...?
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
