The Aussie Wood Ducks Poem by Francis Duggan

The Aussie wood duck's call is a nasal type of sound
Within their range in numbers they abound
You even see them in parks of the town
The males distinctive in their grey and brown,
The brown spotted female the less colourful of the pair
within their range these water birds not rare
Near farm dams, swamp lands and Townpark lake
You see them search for food the female and her drake
In late Winter and early Spring they nest in hollow log or hole in trunk of tree
And nice to see them with their young family
In or near water in prime of the Spring
When wildflowers bloom and nesting birds chirp and sing
With four or five young in Spring their numbers multiply
These Aussie wood ducks of humans not that shy.