Comments on: Where have all the ducklings gone?? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: alufelgi https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534571 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:09:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534571 In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.

]]> By: Pyre https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534570 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:39:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534570 “… the ducklings will start to form a cresh“? Could you mean “crèche“?

]]> By: Blind Squirrel FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534569 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:28:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534569 In this part of the world, the nocturnal cleanup squad consists of raccoon. possum, fox and skunk. The shoreline naturally concentrates them and they are very efficient. It would actually be more remarkable to find a dead duckling on the shore than not.

]]> By: jw https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534568 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:48:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534568 Do you know what kind of swans they are?

No, I wouldn’t know – they just looked like average white swans to me. They were obtained from a nearby farm, which also had a few black swans. Their wings are also trimmed a bit so they don’t fly away. Personally, if it was my pond, I’d rather have just the ducks. Swans are just nasty, even to humans. I have never seen intense human-like hatred in an animal like when I’ve seen swans go after Canadian geese.

]]> By: David Lee https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534567 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:46:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534567 Very interesting. Down here in Illinois it’s shirt-sleeve weather. I saw somebody catch a small gar (I think) in the Hennepin Canal on my walk. Something does eat all those ducklings. Though goslings seem to do much better. Probably due to their larger size.

]]> By: Umlud https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534566 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:37:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534566 “the upper Missippi”? Where’s that? 😉

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534565 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:32:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534565 Do you know what kind of swans they are?

]]> By: jw https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534564 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:44:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/18/where-have-all-the-ducklings-g/#comment-534564 My parents have a nice duckpond in PA, with may species of ducks, geese, swans, etc. One spring they noticed baby ducks and geese disappearing at the rate of one every day or so. Snapping turtles turned out to be the main culprit, although a few just got sick and died. Also, despite their stately appearance, swans are extremely nasty birds and will hunt down and kill baby geese on sight, with incredible, almost genocidal determination. They tolerate most ducks though, if they keep their distance.

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