Wildlife Care Center/Huntington takes in the orphaned ducklings... 1000s from Disneyland & backyards

[Demovictory9]

Orphaned ducklings find lettuce and love at Huntington Beach wildlife center

Around this time every year, the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach is filled with quacking from hundreds of ducklings orphaned during spring “baby season.”

In part because of the coronavirus pandemic, this spring has been especially busy. The center is seeking help from community members to feed and care for more than 500 young birds, operations manager Debbie Wayns said.

“For whatever reason, these ducklings were abandoned by mom, or mom was killed, and so then these babies aren’t old enough to survive on their own, so they were brought to us either by the public or by animal control,” Wayns explained.

More baby mallards are expected soon from nearby Disneyland, which usually drops off thousands every year so they are out of harm’s way at the busy theme park, Wayns said.


Last year, with the park closed because of the pandemic, the center didn’t get any ducklings from Disneyland.

With Disneyland reopening last Friday, Wayns expects to receive truckloads of ducklings again.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-05/in-the-pandemic-orphaned-ducklings-flood-huntington-beach-wildlife-center-where-they-find-lettuce-and-love

[murielm99]

1. I can imagine the quacking.

I would love to hear it for myself.

[Hekate]

2. Awww

Good luck, baby duckies

[Raine]

3. Aw quack quack quack!🦆🦆🦆❤ nt