Hello, can anyone help me ID these feathers?
I got a few of these years ago, so I don't fully remember where I got them from, but they are most likely from birds from Victoria and from a nearby wetlands park.
There is also a VERY low chance they are from Queensland
Also, there's my hand for scale. (I do have a small hand though)
I need help, and I have no idea who to talk to about this.
I live in Bayside, Victoria, and we have a wetland park near my house, full of native birds. Recently, I had fallen ill and hadn't been able to go out for about a year, now i've gotten back out, and I've noticed all the ducks in the area are just gone.
We used to have at least around 60 wood ducks and black pacific ducks, and last spring I remember seeing a family of ducklings. But now they are all gone, now its overran by coots, moorhens, and swamphens.
Also, I haven't seen any sulphur-crested cockatoos this year, only a few corellas. And over the past 6 months, the number of magpies has decreased.
But it's the ducks I'm worried about, I'm not being dramatic when I say there are no ducks! I know we have foxes around here and a bit of a stray cat problem since i have seen the odd dead duck every now and again in the past, but I'm not even finding any dead bodies, or any feathers.
I have only seen 2 ducks in the past year here, and it's a pair of chestnut teals, which we don't even get around here?? These are the only chestnut teals I have seen in this area. And I only saw them once and never again.
Please, who do I talk to about this? I miss my ducks, and I feel like I'm going crazy.
21/1/2025 - last picture of a Pacific black duck I have
7/7/2025 - Went to the park again and only got a picture of a hardhead duck, which is a duck I had never seen around here and never saw again (maybe)
5/6/2026 - The only ducks I saw were two either chestnut teals or hardheads