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Ping, the duck, lives on a boat on the Yangtze River in China. Every day he and his duck family are taken by their owner to feed on the riverbank. Later, when it is evening, Ping is the last duck to return to the boat, so he hides to avoid being spanked. The following day Ping, feeling lost, begins to swim in search of his family.
This is a list of the breeds of domestic duck which have official recognition at national or international level. [1]Most breeds of duck derive from the wild mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, while a small minority are descendants of the Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata.
The first two games were developed in October 1995 and the last two were developed in 1996. The products make use of interactive storybooks based on fairy tales to help early readers broaden their reading, vocabulary, writing and word recognition skills. Each number in the title corresponds to the reading level of the reader they are aimed at.
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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.
"The Pet Goat" (often erroneously called "My Pet Goat") is a grade-school-level reading exercise composed by American educationalist Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It achieved notoriety for being read by US President George W. Bush with a class of second-graders on the morning of September 11, 2001.
It is a Junior Library Guild selection, [10] a 2010 American Library Association Notable Children's Book, [11] the 2012 Grand Canyon Reader Award Picture Book winner, [12] 2011 Beehive Awards Picture Book winner, [13] Runner-up for the 2012 Monarch Award, [14] one of the 2010 Baker’s Dozen (13 best books for Family Literacy), [15] and appears on the 2010 Texas 2x2 Reading List, [16]
The surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a large sea duck native to North America.Adult males are almost entirely black with characteristic white patches on the forehead and the nape and adult females are slightly smaller and browner.