Happy Easter to all
Sorry that this topic follows so quickly the demise of the late-lamented
duck shooting thread.
I would appreciate any views, references, hard (or soft) facts about
the arguments for and against feeding bread to ducks. Please reply
direct to me and not via birding-aus. I promise to summarise the
responses for all to read. If you don't want to be quoted please make
that clear in your response.
I think it has been discussed previously on birding-aus but I could not
find anything in the archive.
My particular concern is with ponds and lakes here in SE Melbourne
where, I guess, the bread thrown to ducks is adding to nutrients,
helping the blue-green algae, feeding mosquito fish/plague minnows
(gambusia spp) and not very good for the ducks (either individually or
as species), let alone the frogs and other wild creatures.
Recently I saw for this first time Wood Duck eating bread, which they
usually ignore in favour of grass.
Michael Norris
Hampton, Vic
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