Where do wild ducks usually live in winter evenings?

In winter, wild ducks usually inhabit the reeds beside the water at night.

Wild ducks are migratory birds. Under natural conditions, they will migrate to the south for the winter in autumn. In China, they often spend the winter in the Yangtze River valley or the southern provinces farther away. At the end of spring, it passed through North China to the northeast and reached Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.

Living habits of wild ducks:

1. Group activities and social residence of tying the knot. In summer, it inhabits freshwater rivers, lakes and swamps rich in aquatic plants in small groups. Flying feathers fall off in autumn and often gather into hundreds or even thousands of large groups during migration.

2. Complete molting in summer and autumn, and partial molting in autumn and winter. Moisturizing and molting starts from the breeding period and ends at the end of August. The moulting time of male ducks is about 15-20 days earlier than that of female ducks, and molting occurs almost simultaneously in winter.

3. The diet is wide and varied, often feeding on seeds, stems, stems, leaves, algae and grains of small fish, shrimp, crustaceans, insects and plants.

It's very loud, like a domestic duck. In the south, the natural hybrid offspring of mallard duck and domestic duck are often used as "vector ducks" to trap flying ducks. The drake sounds like a "crash" and the mother duck sounds like a "honk".

5. molt twice a year. Summer and autumn are completely changed (that is, feathers are moistened), and some feathers are molted in autumn and winter. Moisturizing and molting starts from the breeding period and ends at the end of August. Male ducks molt earlier than female ducks 15 ~ 20 days, and molt almost simultaneously in winter. After autumn, some molting takes about 2 months. The order of molting is chest, abdomen, flank and tail feathers, then head and neck, and finally back feathers.