Nature Walk: Hooded Merganser Ducklings

Posted on May 13, 2015 at 10:00 AM by Taylor Eisenhauer

"If you are a Hooded Merganser hen with a brood of ducklings you have a fulltime job keeping them in line. Like wood ducks they are tree cavity nesters, and readily use wood duck houses on small ponds, streams or rivers. This group of ten is likely only a few days old; yet can easily keep up with their mother." --- Carl Kurtz

“A Hooded Merganser hen with a brood of ducklings has a full-time job keeping them in line. Like wood ducks, they are tree cavity nesters and readily use wood duck houses on small ponds, streams or rivers. This group of ten is likely only a few days old, yet can easily keep up with its mother.” — Carl Kurtz

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