{"id":32539,"date":"2024-08-23T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32539"},"modified":"2024-08-23T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:39:18","slug":"where-are-all-the-male-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32539","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the Male Ducks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024082301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTim has observed a decline in the male duck population at the bridge by the open-air pool. He has observed this over the past few weeks. Among all the ducks he cannot see a single duck with full male plumage.<\/p>\n<p>He has also observed that duck feeding is less frenzied than a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n<p>He has observed that all the mature ducks have female plumage and a few of the juveniles seem to be growing male plumage but no mature males are visible.<\/p>\n<p>Tim suggested some explanations for this decline in the male duck population:<\/p>\n<p>Habitat Loss: Changes in the surrounding environment might have driven male ducks to other places.<br \/>\nDisease: A disease outbreak specific to male ducks.<br \/>\nHormonal Factors: Pollutants in the water could be affecting the hormonal balance of ducks, leading to males becoming female.<br \/>\nLeisure: Male ducks have migrated to a more exciting location now the breeding season is over.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody out there may be able to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim has observed a decline in the male duck population at the bridge by the open-air pool. He has observed this over the past few weeks. Among all the ducks he cannot see a single duck with full male plumage. He has also observed that duck feeding is less frenzied than a few weeks ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}