Australian Wood Duck at Jerrabomberra, NSW
Identification history
| Chenonetta jubata | 4 Oct 2021 | Liam.m | ||
| Chenonetta jubata | 4 Oct 2021 | SteveBorkowskis |
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User's notes
16 ducklings seems like a lot?
3 comments
Liam.m
wrote:
4 Oct 2021
I have seen pair with up to 25 ducklings, not exactly sure how this happens. Maybe someone else will?
natureguy
wrote:
4 Oct 2021
I think Liam is correct that they will "adopt" other family's ducklings. I have seen a couple of pairs with 20+ ducklings in a few places. Most sources online cite 8-11 as a "usual" clutch size, so I would think 20 would not be from just 1 pair as it seems excessively large. Either way, most often they have far fewer than 16 Ducklings, usually 5-10 in my experience (often quite a few will disappear throughout the course of parenting).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.208817-35.387672
- Altitude 635.5m
- Places Jerrabomberra, NSW
Sighting information
- 18 Abundance
- 1 Oct 2021 03:45 PM Recorded on
- SteveBorkowskis Recorded by
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Birds Water birds Waterfowl (Ducks, Geese, Swans) SteveBorkowskis Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Chenonetta jubata Scientific name
- Australian Wood Duck Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1064.8m Recorded at altitude
- 830 images trained Machine learning
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