Can YOU spot the duck? Internet goes crazy over camouflaged animal in new video

A new video created to raise awareness of the local wildlife turned into a duck hunt.

The internet went berserk after the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife captured footage along a lawn where a duck hid in plain sight but was camouflaged by the brown reeds.

The mallard was caught nesting in front of the agency building, and the team took the opportunity to urge onlookers to “leave wild animals alone so they can make more wildlife.”

“It may not feel like it, but it’s spring, which means we’ll soon have a bunch of chicks, ducklings and ducklings running around,” the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shared in a tweet.

Mallards are known for adapting to urban environments, so conservationists hope the video will encourage people not to disturb them during breeding season.

These are the most common of their kind and are widespread throughout Oregon.

Mallards are peeing or dabbling ducks and usually feed by dabbling or dipping rather than submerging.

And they migrate and reside in coastal and inland marshes, lakes and ponds, rivers and farmland.

Ducks were domesticated in 4000 BC by Egyptians, Chinese and Europeans.

Ancient Egyptians believed the animal symbolized fertility, while others took them home to eat.

The duck in the video won’t make it on a plate any time soon, but will eventually watch her eggs hatch into chicks.

“You never know where you’ll find wildlife,” the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tweeted.

It may not feel like it, but it’s spring and that means a bunch of goslings, geese and ducklings will be out and about soon.

The mallard was spotted nesting in front of the agency’s building, and the team took the opportunity to urge onlookers to “leave wild animals alone so they can start making more wildlife ‘

Almost all domestic duck breeds can be traced back to Mallards. Domestic ducks and Mallards are the same species, with some of the same genes.

Mallards can interbreed with 63 other duck species and create fertile hybrid offspring.

However, this ability also dilutes the duck population and causes ‘genetic pollution’ leading to the extinction of wild, native waterfowl.

Mallards feast on seeds, acorns, berries, plants, insects, crustaceans and fish eggs, which sometimes hatch after being defecated back into the wild.

A team of researchers at the Danube Research Institute made this discovery in 2020 by testing what would happen if carp eggs were force-fed to ducks in a lab.

The team fed 8,000 eggs from two different invasive carp species to a group of eight mallard ducks, then examined duck droppings to see what would happen to the eggs after they were eaten.

While most of the eggs were destroyed as they passed through the ducks’ digestive system, 18 eggs made it through intact, according to a report in Science news.

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