Learn What Wood Ducks Eat

Wood ducks mostly have an herbivore diet, they like to eat seeds, small plants, nuts, and plant foods etc. They also eat small vertebrates. They eat both land and aquatic invertebrates. They pair up in late winters and starts breeding in spring.

The lifespan of wood ducks is not much longer. A male wood duck who lived longest was 22 years and 6 months old.

They usually sleep in the water, but the female wood ducks with their young ones usually sleep out of water.

Plants, Nuts, and Seeds

Wood ducks like to eat nuts such as acorns, they like to eat cracked corn, wheat, barley, and rice and for vegetables, they like to eat chopped lettuce and other chopped green vegetables.

In seeds, wood ducks like to eat sunflower seeds, soybean, millet, Japanese millet, milo, and duckweed. Wood ducks love to eat sweet potatoes, wild rice, and wild celery.

Eggs and other animals

Wood ducks keep altering their diet throughout their lives. They also eat some invertebrates. Wood ducks like to eat fish like crayfish, minnows, and guppies, etc. Also, wood ducks will eat crustaceans and insects like dragonflies. Wood ducks eat snails, clams, frogs, tadpoles, small frogs, and string algae. These are some of the things that wood ducks like to eat. 

What wood ducks eat in captivity?

They are although herbivore, but they also have omnivore diet, wood ducks like to eat seeds, acorns, berries and insects in captivity.

What wood ducks don’t eat?

Wood ducks can’t eat bread, onion, chocolate, any citrus fruit, popcorn, avocado, or garlic. A very small amount of bread can be given to wood ducks but large amounts are very harmful.