Mated Pair Standing Guard - Photo from Wikicommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Falkland Steamer Duck are very aggressive and territorial.\u00a0 Normally a mated pair will bond up and patrol their territory.\u00a0 The slightest hint of another Steamer Duck or intruder will cause the ducks to fling into action.\u00a0 Now I am not talking about a normal bird fight here.\u00a0 Most waterfowl will huff and puff and try to scare off their intruder.\u00a0 The Falkland Steamer Duck actually walks the walk and will engage in a fierce battle where bloodshed often occurs.\u00a0\u00a0 This is one watery neighbourhood you don’t want to accidentally wander into late at night.<\/p>\n
So we have a highly aggressive and territorial mated pair of ducks but what about the rest of the individuals.\u00a0 Often the un-mated ducks will band together with the immature ducks forming a lonely support group.\u00a0 In some cases this group can get up to 300 or more Falkland Steamer Ducks.\u00a0 That is a lot of lonely little ducks.\u00a0 Of course, these flocks of Steamer Ducks still have to respect the mated pairs wishes which means those 300 ducks are still not allowed to enter the territory of a mated pair.\u00a0 Talk about snobby, uninviting ducks.\u00a0 Once they get in a\u00a0 relationship they just ditch their friends.<\/p>\n
Wow that first Wild Fact on Flightless Birds went pretty quick.\u00a0 Tune into tomorrow to find out if the next flight challenged bird is just as interesting as the Falkland Steamer Duck.\u00a0 I am hoping they are even more exciting!\u00a0 Have a great day folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hopefully all of my scheduled posts are working and you are actually reading this Wild Fact on Monday November 1st.\u00a0 Wow, it is November already!! Since I am away all this week we are going to have another Wild Facts Theme.\u00a0 This weeks theme will be Flightless Birds (thanks again, Agapelife for the suggestions).\u00a0 To get it all started we are taking a trip to the Falklands to learn about a flying impaired duck called the Falkland Steamer Duck.\u00a0 For those of you who are wondering the Falklands are Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean (about 460 km from South <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[741,4024],"tags":[348,773,772,1311,4124,4025,1312],"yoast_head":"\n
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