Do you Feed the Ducks?

Feeding ducks is often a family favourite activity. Unfortunately feeding ducks bread is widely considered to cause more harm than good.
Bread is like junk food for ducks. It has very little nutritional value yet they love it! If eaten in moderation bread does little harm. However, if you consider the ducks at local ponds who are eating bread not just from your family but the families that visit before and after you, you can see that before long the birds have eaten much more bread than they should.
Feeding bread to birds in general can cause a whole lot of problems including malnutrition, gut problems, aggressive behaviour, and spread of disease. Unfortunately many of these problems can result in death.
Please visit our website to find out more about this and for some bread alternatives. www.ourenvironment.org.au