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Name: Roxanne H.
Status: other
Age: 30s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 1999-2001
Question:
If you have ducks at your home and you take them somewhere else say near a river or lake to be with other ducks do they somehow find their way back to where they originally started from either before or after flying south. We have heard from someone that no matter where we take them that they will end up back at our house.

Replies:
Maybe, maybe not. Ducks relocated to a good habitat may become well adjusted to that place and return there after migration. Migrant birds do tend to return to the area where they were hatched but not always.

J. Elliott

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