OUR 2025 Club project - now underway!
Fundraising
You may have seen fellow Wando students and faculty wearing their Wando Ducks Varsity Chapter t-shirts around campus. Well every penny of profit from the sale of those shirts will be dedicated to our 2025 Project, which will be building local habitat for one of the Lowcountry's most spectacular feathered creatures!
Wood Duck Boxes
Our 2025 Project will build as many nesting boxes until the money we raised and the helping hands run out! These boxes replicate lost habitat- the hollow trees and other natural voids Wood Ducks and many other local Lowcountry species prefer as their nesting sites. They will be built of cypress, cedar and rust-resistant hardware and placed in key areas around our region (such as the Francis Marion Forest).
Our Future Residents
Wood Ducks (colloquially named "Woodies", or sometimes Carolina duck, Aix sponsa) are a partially migratory species of perching duck found in North America, and in particular the South Carolina Lowcountry. The male is among the most colorful of all North American waterfowl. They will take to nesting boxes that have been erected as substitutes to their lost natural habitat.
Our Goal
We intend to place a trail camera to watch the babies, or chicks, hatch and make their first tentative flights, and share the images with the school and our patrons!