GOLDENEYE DUCK NESTING, LIVE WEBCAM
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- Location: RSPB Loch Garten Nature Reserve, Abernethy, Scotland
- Source: RSPB
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Info: Live streaming webcam showing a goldeneye duck in a nest box at RSPB Loch Garten Nature Reserve in Abernethy, Scotland. The female goldeneye lays around 6 to 12 eggs and waits until the clutch is complete, before incubation
them for 27 to 33 days.
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More info: The common goldneye is a cavity-nesting duck but Will readily use artificial nests as well. Goldeneye nests are frequently parasitized by other females of the same species, with some nests containing eggs from multiple, related mothers. Only the female incubates the eggs and she lines the bottom of the nest with wood chips and thick down feathers plucked from her breast. The male goldeneye guards the female whislt she lays her eggs but then abandons her shortly after incubation begins.
Goldeneye duck eggs hatch almost simultaneously - generally within a 12 hour period. This is known as synchronized hatching. After around 24 to 36 hours, the mother calls to the ducklings from the ground and the chicks leap from the nest hole one after another and tumble to the ground to Follow the mother to the water.
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