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Title: The Duck Pond
Description: Ducks


Jayesh - March 25, 2006 09:05 PM (GMT)
I have a duck pond with mandarin ducks, canada geese, mallards, mute swans, indian runner ducks, mallards, white farm ducks, greylag geese, white farm geese, herons, coot, moorhen and water rail. What is the diets of these birds?

Robyn - March 26, 2006 02:43 AM (GMT)
You have all those bird species?!

The ducks, geese, and swans mostly eat aquatic vegetation and some land vegetation. They sell waterfowl feed which is mostly grains to feed them. On occasion, they may take small fish, aquatic invertebrates, etc.

Herons eat fish, snails, tadpoles, and frogs.

Coots are omnivores, eating both plants and small animals (fish, tadpoles, insects).

Rail mostly eat aquatic animals like those previously mentioned.

Moorhen are omnivores, eating plants, grass, insects, snails, worms, etc.

Jayesh - March 29, 2006 08:31 AM (GMT)
I have added lots of minnows for the heron and I am feeding the birds grain. The heron enjoys grain too.

Robyn - March 29, 2006 03:50 PM (GMT)
How do you keep all those birds around? Are their wings all clipped? Is it all fenced? How big is the pond? Did you buy all those birds or did some just show up? I don't think you can buy herons and rail legally? The others I've seen for sale although not sure about coots and moorhen. Just curious!

Jayesh - March 29, 2006 05:13 PM (GMT)
The rail, coot, moorhen and herons are natural. They flew from the park pond.




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