I found an egg by the lagoon***UPDATE****pic added

[shmooborp]

MALLARD. wood ducks have more white ness and are a bit diffrent shaped

 

[chicknmania]

It is illegal to pick up dead birds, and eggs. I don't know what the penalty is; I don't think you'd be arrested; they might fine you if they wanted to be jerky about it. I believe the reason for the laws are actually to protect wildlife; you know, so people don't take eggs out of nests, or shoot wild birds just so they can have them stuffed and mounted for decoration. If you want to you could call your local wildlife rehabilitator, most states have lots of them, and tell them what you are doing; they would probably work with you on it. Anyway, it'll be fun to find out what it is.

 

[Guitartists]

From what I see on pics... wood duck baby's heads have a stripe by their eye that only extends from the side of the eye towards the back of the head, as where the mallards have a stripe that starts by the beak and goes to the eye and then from the eye towards the back of the head... I vote Mallard

 

[PearlD]

The pictures I saw of both breeds make me lean towards wood. I agree that the wood is more 'white' but the stripe on the face seem the same. The mallard pics I saw had 2 stripes......you baby looks as if it only has one.

I guess you'll know soon enough!

 

[PearlD]

But now that I've looked again, I agree that it may be mallard.... based on the odd shape of the wood duck.
Holy cow this is confusing!!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

That is a Mallard duckling.

I am 150% sure.

 

[momma's chickens]

I have no idea what that duck is except CUTE!!!

I am a lot of help aren't I?

 

[amysue2012]

I am sooo happy for you! I was asking about feed for ducks. My dog brought one good egg into the yard and one broke...put in the bator... yada yada. Both seem to be doing ok and they look exactly like yours do. Im gald to hear every one thinks its Mallard.

Would it be illegal if I pick it up out of my yard or my dogs mouth? Its my yard and my dog.?.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Probably, although I wouldn't let it stop me. You can just say you thought your dogs were bringing you one of your chicken eggs or something. If you find out it is a rare or endangered or protected breed, raise it to a reasonable age and then release it or even better yet hatch it out and take it to a wildlife rehabilitator.

If it turns out to be a common mallard, I honestly wouldn't worry about it at all. People keep pet mallards all the time. This does NOT mean you go hunting for eggs and stealing them out of wild nests, that would be illegal and wrong in my opinion. It would be equivalent to stealing ducklings or chicks from their mothers, it is the reason the laws were made.

-Kim

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

On another forum I am a member of there was a guy that has some huge trees in his backyard and a pond at the edge of the property and he had been seeing wood ducks all over. Well one day his dog brought in a dead duckling so he freaked out and went out only to find a dead wood duck hen with ducklings peeping in the brush. We manages to find 4 or 5 of them and raised them up then let them go. Of course since they had imprinted on him they stuck around, he was saying that one of em has a nest again and his dog will be locked up.