Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

Wood Duck in the nest with ducklings eating the shell of an egg. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks laid 3 eggs in a hollowed tree trunk and left in the wetlands. The Wood Duck laid her 3 eggs there as well and is raising the Whistling Ducklings as her own - brood parasite.

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