About 24 hours after hatching, all the wood duck ducklings will jump out of the nest to join their mother. Questions about this spectacle and other reader birding questions answered.

You have to be a diligent birdwatcher to catch jump day, which happens the morning after wood ducks are born.

Just a day after hatching, baby wood ducks leap from their tree nests, tumbling to the water below where their mother waits. Courtesy of Larry Reis Above, the newborn duckling jumps out of the tree.

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Artuso agrees that this is possible. Since baby wood ducks are known to be rather independent, Wolf’s duckling could’ve set off to find their mother, or another brood of wood ducks to join.