Mallard Duck Timelapse and Release

All grown up! Throughout summer, our team cared for two groups of orphaned Mallard ducklings that were rescued from sewers. This video shares their daily progress and successful release.
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[@adriennem7685]

Thank you for showing this! We hatched a wild mallard and we're raising it for release; being able to see a timeline is really helpful

[@shadowsinmymind9]

They grow up so quick 😭

[@camfg8908]

The geese and ducks ''welcome newbies, just jump into water, it does not hurt''

[@kevinmclaughlin9161]

Thank you!

[@gregoryagogo]

so sweet

[@gregoryagogo]

That's a tight family!

[@mdosharp]

This is nice! Hopefully they’re ok. 🥰

[@dandanblog3312]

ang cu cute naman niyan..gusto ko yan..

[@Procrastn8rsUnite2morrow]

Awesome job! ❓ I've got mallard ducklings that are 29 days old. Feathers are starting to appear and some have a green sheen on the very top of their heads. Is this an indicator that these are drakes or do juvenile female mallards also have the green on their heads? 👍

[@awesomeblossom2417]

only drakes have green on the head, but at 29 days old, I'd say they shouldn't be getting color yet. If you look at the bills, though, you should see the differentation.

[@elizabethkane6665]

Amazing...

[@VipHonolulu]

You released them.... near a Highway?
Um....

[@doctorjekyll6125]

😂😂😂

[@faithhanson5019]

Did you ever go back and visit and see them?

[@andrewmoore7014]

They're really able to survive after only 40 days?

[@doctorjekyll6125]

🥴

[@techfrank2431]

Let mother nature guide you ducklings. 😊

[@justmixvlog]

Hello,may i know what is their feeds from day 1?

[@chiefexecutive]

THEMS NICE DUCKS!!

[@AG-nn8lp]

Can you release just one alone? We found an abandoned one and it's maybe 3weeks old

[@Rapaway1]

Cute

[@lifeispoetry8349]

I own a mallard duck. He’s a house duck though. Won’t leave my side. ❤️
May I ask what is the name of that music?

[@doctorjekyll6125]

🤡

[@victortega1]

Update? Lol

[@doctorjekyll6125]

RIP

[@BOX_corporation.]

All of them are female

[@paulabrenny5189]

picture yourself seperated from someone you depended on and without survival skills you get released into the wild?.... how would you like it? thats what you did right there

[@bvbocan1]

I think its bloody irresponsible and cruel to raise these ducks domesticated and just dump them in the wild to fend for themselves.

[@maxthrust88888]

You know nothing. They will be fine.

[@Idk7630]

@@maxthrust88888most animals that are raised then set to the wild die quickly due to not knowing how to protect themselves

[@babbabiamesser]

Day 43: all dead because they were not use to the wild

[@joancuadra1]

It’s this really true

[@doctorjekyll6125]

Pwhahahahahahaha

[@user-kc7bd3wg8l]

No, it isnt.

[@leila1705]

6 of the ducklings sadly got swallowed by an alligator a couple hours later. 😢

[@user-kc7bd3wg8l]

Really?? Near Lake Erie?
Should be be more concerned that they are the most hunted Duck bybhumans.

[@hiddeninfo223]

I hope you clean that pond up 🤮