What do ducks eat? Not bread — or at least they shouldn't be nibbling on the carb-heavy food. Tossing stale bread into your local pond to feed wild ducks does more harm than good. Learn why you should ...

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.

2. Ducks become dependent on us Carr said it's dangerous to feed bread to ducks for a number of reasons, but it's particularly dangerous for ducklings. "They don't learn proper foraging behaviour.

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.