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Make Way for Ducklings is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden.
The female lays 6–17 (most often 8–12) white to yellowish eggs, and raises one brood in a season. The ducklings are taken by their mother on her back to rivers or lakes immediately after hatching, where they feed on freshwater invertebrates and small fish fry, fledging when 60–70 days old. The young are sexually mature at the age of two ...
Make Way for Ducklings is a sculpture by Nancy Schön, which recreates the duck family in Robert McCloskey's children's classic Make Way for Ducklings.. The original set of bronze statues was installed in the Boston Public Garden in 1987, and a copy was installed in Moscow at Novodevichy Park in 1991.
In 2019, Karyn Alzayer, a Boston University student, surrounded the ducklings with wire cages and put mylar blankets over them. Alzayer's goal was to symbolize the crisis at the United States' southern border. Alzayer separated the mother duck from the ducklings to symbolize how the United States government was separating children from their ...
A duckling is a baby duck. "Duckling" or "ducklings" may also refer to: Duckling (software), a collaborative software suite "Duckling", a 2011 episode of the TV series Louie; Loening Duckling, the name of several models of aircraft developed by Loening Aeronautical Engineering in the 1910s and 1920s
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
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The Duck Flock, flock of gangster mallard ducks who want revenge on a human gang in the music video "Get Up (Rattle)" The duck on the head of the beggar The Duck Man in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett; DuckBob Spinowitz, man transformed into an anthropomorphic duck by aliens in the novel No Small Bills [9] by Aaron Rosenberg.