# Feeding the Ducks in the Park. . . Am I Hurting Them?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-ducks-in-the-park-am-i-hurting-them/208830>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-ducks-in-the-park-am-i-hurting-them/208830 "2003-10-22T03:00:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-the-ducks-in-the-park-am-i-hurting-them/208830/21 "2003-10-24T05:00:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Markxxx \*  
> \*\*Also those Egrets or Storks or whatever they are, those huge birds. I have actually seen old men fighting with them. They are using those long beaks and the old men are using their fishing poles, as the Egrets or Herons are trying to steal fish out of the pale. They are aggressive. \*\*

I know some fishermen with the same problem, only they felt bad about offing the birds themselves, so they hired someone to clandestinely do the trapping and killing. This way, they’d have no more egrets.

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