Many are saying "duck must be eating shells".

But no, the Duck(female) which I observed, actually ate
everying else except the shells. (20+ days of incubating).
Shells are still lying there. I observed this very
closely as the duck's nest was just below our window.

Narendra Bhagwat,
West Seattle.


>From: "Blake Iverson" <bswallow25 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: bswallow25 at hotmail.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: RE: DUCK EATING EGGS...NO NO!!
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:25:09 PDT
>
>
>
> Hi there tweeters,
>
> I just wanted to commet that most likely the DUCK did not eat her own
>eggs. What you saw is normal in a lot of birds. Females exert a lot of
>energy when carrying for eggs and when the eggs shell cannot or the female
>doesn't want to carry it away from the nest she will eat it for calcium.
>BARN SWALLOWS and PURPLE MARTINS are famous for doing this, crush some eggs
>and you will have some SWALLOWS eating the eggs for calcium. I to do not no
>what could have eaten them except for an owl, I do not know if owls have
>been known to eat eggs but hay, they eat all kinds of other animals why not
>an egg.
>
>Blake Iverson
>arlington, wa
>bswallow25 at hotmail.com
>
>
>P.S. IF THERE IS A DUCK EXPERT AT ALL WHO CAN COMMENT ON THIS PLEASE
>DO.....YOU NEVER KNOW, I MAY BE WRONG. BUT IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY.
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