Wood Ducks

Since 2004, the Spring Island Trust has maintained wood duck nesting boxes in locations around the island.

Wood ducks are a species of focus because they are cavity nesters and suffer from lack of habitat in many areas since swamps have been cleared of old growth trees. Since 2004, the Spring Island Trust has maintained wood duck nesting boxes in locations around the island. Between December and June every year, Trust staff and volunteers check the boxes for nesting activity and count the numbers of eggs laid and duckling hatched. While the number of boxes has varied some over the years, the monitoring has showed that Spring Island has been used consistently by wood ducks as habitat to nest and raise ducklings in.