Northern shoveler ducklings and eggs at Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Montana

Several fluffy gray-and-yellow ducklings crowded on top of one another next to three white eggs

Photo By/Credit

Steve Dawes/USFWS

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Image

These northern shoveler ducklings at Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Montana are precocial. Precocial birds hatch with feathers, with their eyes open, and pretty much ready to leave the nest and run around within hours.

Facility

Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Ecosystem

Mountain

Species

Anas clypeata

Subject tags

Birds

Wildlife refuges

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