If you’re feeding wild ducks, especially in urban areas, you temporarily raise the number of the environment can sustain. If no-one feeds them later there can be a shortage of food. Feeding ducks should is definitely not as dangerous as portrayed, but it is also incorrect to say that it doesn’t affect them at all.
Feeding ducks should be done in moderation.
But that’s true of feeding them anything, and the only real reason the duck feeding will stop is if people spread misinformation about it being bad for them.
I agree there are lots of theoretical ways we could create unlikely situations by overdoing things but there is no evidence anywhere that throwing a few bits of bread to ducks when you take your kid to the park is causing any problems at all.
The post is wrong and I hate seeing wrong information spread. I love the energy behind it and the intent
If you’re feeding wild ducks, especially in urban areas, you temporarily raise the number of the environment can sustain. If no-one feeds them later there can be a shortage of food. Feeding ducks should is definitely not as dangerous as portrayed, but it is also incorrect to say that it doesn’t affect them at all. Feeding ducks should be done in moderation.
But that’s true of feeding them anything, and the only real reason the duck feeding will stop is if people spread misinformation about it being bad for them.
I agree there are lots of theoretical ways we could create unlikely situations by overdoing things but there is no evidence anywhere that throwing a few bits of bread to ducks when you take your kid to the park is causing any problems at all.
The post is wrong and I hate seeing wrong information spread. I love the energy behind it and the intent