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Build a Nest Box
Bring Waterfowl to Your Backyard!
Some species of waterfowl nest in holes or cavities high up in trees. Unfortunately, cavity-nesting species are among the most threatened birds in North America.
Through the Nest Box Program, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and ACA have been working together to provide nesting cavities for waterfowl, with the long-term goal of conserving habitat. Natural habitat remains the most beneficial environment for waterfowl, but nest boxes provide an inexpensive, easy and family-fun way to provide nesting sites for such waterfowl species as the Common Goldeneye and Bufflehead.
Build your own nest box and see how easy it is to help a duck family in your own backyard!
Watch a Bufflehead hen hatching her chicks in a nest box! - Jim Potter
Watch Bufflehead chicks leaving nest box - Phil French
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