Odd duck behavior

[Athiena14]

Any idea what my two male ducks are doing at the very end?

 

[Isaac 0]

It is a mating behavior known as a grunt-whistle, done by males in early spring to impress and show off to the females.

http://therattlingcrow.blogspot.com/2013/09/mallards-grunt-whistling.html

 

[Athiena14]

It is a mating behavior known as a grunt-whistle, done by males in early spring to impress females.

I had never seen it before thats cool

 

[Isaac 0]

I had never seen it before thats cool

It is, although I can't say it works - when I tried it at the bar the only thing I got was weird looks.

 

[DucksAreBest]

My drakes also do that.

 

[3bird]

Angus (our big silver Appleyard drake) does this year round! It's funny...he postures and postures until all the girls are looking at him before he does it.

 

[Percipen]

Oh my gosh that's crazy. I've never seen it before. Even crazier that they did it in sync

 

[Athiena14]

Oh my gosh that's crazy. I've never seen it before. Even crazier that they did it in sync

I know seriously. The one did it a couple times and so I started filming to see if the did it again

 

[Trisseh]

My super imprinted runner drake does it to literally everyone, all people included. Lol. It does seem that once one does, if there are other drakes in the flock, they also do it. usually if my guys do it on land, they then drop close to the ground with their necks stretched out and “zoom” around.

 

[3bird]

If you don't want to watch the whole thing, skip to 1:08, 1:35 and 2:50. These are our two silver Appleyard drakes, Piglet (all white) and Angus getting their "grunt and whistle" on!