Subject: [Tweeters] Mallard eating koi?
Date: Oct 11 08:51:13 2005
From: Kathy Andrich - chukarbird at yahoo.com


Hi Michael and Tweeters,

The Mallards here (Portage Bay) will eat the same dead
little fish the crows going fishing for. I have also
watched Mallards eat rotten dead salmon on the
sandbars or shores of the Cedar River. Yuck, a duck
with fish breathe.

Kathy
Roosting in S King County

--- Michael Hobbs <birdmarymoor at verizon.net> wrote:

> Tweets -
>
> My dentist had an interesting bird tale for me
> today.
>
> He has a small koi pond, and he reported once seeing
> a Mallard land there,
> hop into the pond, somehow manage to catch baby koi.
>
> Specifically, what he reported was that the Mallard
> managed to flip the baby
> koi out of the water onto the grass. Later, the
> Mallard came up and ate
> them off the grass. He also mentioned that the
> babies seldom thrive, so
> they may not have been 100%.
>
> I've never heard anything like that. Also, the BNA
> account does not seem to
> mention fish as part of the Mallard diet (though it
> does mention aquatic
> invertebrates).
>
> Weird.
>
> == Michael Hobbs
> == Kirkland, WA
> == http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
> == birdmarymoor at verizon.net
>
>
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