Like most game animals, wild ducks do not have a static diet. Instead of eating the same menu day in and day out all year, ducks eat whatever is readily available.

There’s a wide variety of duck food out there, as most wild waterfowl will make a meal of 1,001 different things. So, what do ducks eat?

Wild ducks tend to stick to whatever bugs they find, and they will eat food that is fed to them by park visitors or guests. Bread has been long regarded as a bad thing to feed wild birds.

Several years ago, as I was experimenting with wild duck recipes for my own family, I came across the best one for bringing together a variety of ducks in one pot: a red Thai curry.