She was sitting on a puddle in eastern Russia when she got the urge to fly back to her home continent. With the wind at her back, she took off at approximately 10:30 p.m. and was soaring over the Bering Sea by midnight. Reaching ground speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, the hen stayed airborne over southeast Alaska and the North Pacific. Twenty-five hours and roughly 2,000 miles later, the duck finally touched down in a wetland somewhere in northern California.
“It’s unbelievable,” says Paul Link, a lead waterfowl researcher with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. “It’s the first bird I’ve ever seen do this.
How Far Can Ducks Migrate in a Day? About 2,000 Miles
This is astonishing. I have new respect for ducks.
A woman brings her duck to the vet because the duck is not very responsive. She is very worried. Finally, the ducks in on the veterinary table, and the vet performs his inspection. After a couple of minutes, the vet turns to the woman and sadly shares with her: “I’m sorry but your duck passed away”. The woman, very distressed, insists “I love my duck. How can you be so sure that he is no longer alive? You haven’t done any tests… he could be in a coma for all we know”. The vet shakes his head and goes to a separate room where he comes back with a labrador. The lab sniffs the duck from top to bottom, then turns to the vet and shakes his head. The vet then goes to get a cat. The cat sniffs the duck thoroughly as well, but with the same result: the cat turns to the vet and shakes his head. The vet confirms to the lady: your duck did pass away: it’s now confirmed by our lab report and cat scan.
But they can still be funny.
Whio duck. A NZ torrent duck style species.
A much better video. I love how much they look like the rocks.