“Teamwork”:Two Black-bellied Whistling Duck parents show enormous courage to protect their ducklings from prey Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 58 sec
✓ Published: 25-Apr-2015

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This pair of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks arrived in our pond in early May, 2014. Since then I have watched, photographed and videoed a plethora of behaviors, but none like what I witnessed on the morning of August 10th. Temperatures in the small box in the sun must have been almost fatal on many days that the outside temperature was in the high 90’s. During the last couple of days, when instead of alternating incubation they both stayed in the box as their eggs hatched, I watched them both p