1st Response Wildlife Works to Protect Mother Duck and Her Brood

Ducks and other water fowl enjoy access to water all across greater Tucson in natural settings as well as backyard pools.  While your backyard pool might not be your choice for a mother duck to raise her young, it may be appealing enough for a mother duck to choose somewhere in close proximity to your home or pool to make a nest.  The fact that there is water close can make the building of a nest under a Texas Ranger bush, or other sheltered area an ideal choice for mother duck.  At other times, ducks will make a nest in a neighborhood, miles from natural water, but in a safe, to the mother duck, sheltered spot. 

Regardless of whether a homeowner discovers a nesting duck or a mother with her newly hatched brood of ducklings, if you are worried about their safety, please call 1^st Response Wildlife for a humane and safe removal/relocation.

1^st Response Wildlife gets numerous calls for these types of duck family removals, especially in the spring, when mother ducks decide to lay their eggs in close proximity to homes and businesses.  While the selection of nesting areas may seem protected and adequate to a mother duck, residents with children and pets may become concerned that, when the eggs hatch, the ducklings will not be safe.  In other cases, home and business owners, worry that a nest in an exposed area leaves little protection from predators.

Fortunately, the rehabbers in Tucson are happy to accept mother ducks, with ducklings, and raise the ducklings to maturity.  Once they are able to survive on their own, they are all released back into the wild where there are several safe waterways, lakes, and ponds for them to establish their new homes.

Below are two pictures of a mother Mallard duck with her 9 ducklings.  The first picture appears bluish because of the light, at the time they were rescued by 1st Response Wildlife and delivered to a rehab organization that accepts ducks.

The second picture was taken 2 weeks later, showing the mother Mallard is fine and the ducklings are growing.

 

 

If you find an unwanted family of ducks making their home in your yard or around your business or, as the summer progresses, you find that an individual or family of ducks has decided that your pool area looks like a great place to call home and you would like to have them relocated, 1^st Response Wildlife would be happy to work with you relocate them.  The welfare of the ducks and your property will be given every consideration.  If it is determined that the ducks would be better off being introduced elsewhere or, if they are injured in any way, 1^st Response Wildlife will work to relocate them safely and, if necessary take them to a rehabber until they can fend on their own.

 

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Josh's Cell (24/7 Hours): 520-260-9517

Josh Waling is a humane Licensed Animal Trapper who catches and releases wildlife, removing animals including bobcats (lince), snakes, rattlesnakes (serpiente de cascabel), raccoons (mapache), pack rats, gila monsters (monstruos de gila), rabbits (canejo), owls, bats, hawks, ducks, squirrels (ardilla), coatimundi (gato solo), skunks (mofeta), exotics, and domestic cats and dogs. He delivers service that is professional and fast and he is available 24/7.  Give him a call the next time you hear unusual noises in the attic or crawl spaces in your home or if you see wildlife eating your vegetation, creating nests, and raising their young too close to your pets or children or have an exotic sighting in your neighborhood. 520-260-9517 Thanks!