There's actually a huge fine for hitting one here. Personally, I think that's idiotic. Like any city straddling a river, Kalamazoo will always have some "inconvenient" wildlife. Once in the middle of the night, I saw a dog with something in its mouth sitting at a crosswalk, like it was waiting for the light to change. When it crossed the street into my headlights, I saw it was actually a coyote with a dead turkey!
Still though, I was happy to see these little ducklings make it safely across downtown Michigan Ave.