SPCA Serving Erie County: CONTINUING TO SERVE
May 5, 2020 — Yesterday morning, the SPCA’s Wildlife Department received a call about a nesting mallard who had been struck and killed by a car the night prior. The homeowner knew where the nest was, and [the homeowner called because] the babies were starting to hatch!
When our Wildlife team arrived on location, half of the 14 eggs had hatched into fuzzy babies; the other ducks were still pipping out of their eggs. Without a mother, however, the ducks that remained in 
their eggs had become very hypothermic and were struggling to escape their egg-ey confines!
All 14 babies and eggs were brought to the shelter and incubated. It was a rough start for the eight that were hatching, but by the end of the day, all duckies were alive and recovering in the incubators!
–Dawn Karipidis, SPCA Serving Erie County
