Tipped Over Duck Nest Box Traps Turtles in a Restored Wetland (Ohio)

摘要

Duck nest boxes are often erected in both public and privately owned wetlands to provide nest sites for cavity-nesting ducks, such as wood ducks (Aix sponsa) and hooded mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus). There may now be millions of these boxes erected in wetlands in the United States and Canada, since many state and federal agencies and nonprofit organizations have disseminated plans for building nest boxes and funded programs to distribute them for more than 30 years. These boxes are beneficial to ducks and have helped wood duck populations.