chick left behind (1 Viewer)

Hello all- I have been desperately seeking help for a baby chick, I believe is a mallard chick... This little chick keeps getting left behind from the others I am worried that it is not getting the attention needed from the mother. She keeps leaving it behind it's so sad. I think the little chick just can't keep up....
what to do?

Hi Slish,a warm welcome to you from the BirdForum Moderators & Administration. Good to have you with us.I don't quite know what to recommend for your chick.Hopefully a member from your part of the world will have some suggestions.I know that birds will often weed out weaker individuals and usually in ways that seem very brutal to us.Birds have been raising their own young for eternity without needing our help.Generally, I leave them to it.Is there a local birding society or rehabber you could contact for suggestions?

Hi, Slish! Another warm welcome to you from BirdForum!

Mark gives good advice: Let Nature take its course. It is sometimes difficult to watch, but if the duckling is too weak, or if there's something biologically wrong with it that it can't keep up, it's nature's way of maintaining the most fit gene pool.

You also have to consider how much stress you'd put on the rest of this wild duck family by trying to capture one duckling to get it to a rehabber. If it were me, I'd just leave them alone, undisturbed.