{"id":23663,"date":"2018-06-05T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T03:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23663"},"modified":"2018-06-10T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:29:52","slug":"dead-duck-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23663","title":{"rendered":"Dead Duck Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, I posted a story, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23439\">Mallard&#8217;s #metoo<\/a>, about the gang rape of a mommy mallard. At the time, I did not relate my observations to a TED Talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kees_moeliker_how_a_dead_duck_changed_my_life\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How a dead duck changed my life<\/a>, I had watched some years earlier. But, the two events came together, today, on Dead Duck Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Mallard has been characterized as the ubiqui-duck. Observing one does not come close to constituting an exciting sighting. Birders hardly find it worthy of much mention.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did today, June 5<sup>th<\/sup>, come to be known as <em>Dead Duck Day<\/em> &#8212; a day which honours a mallard in Holland that died while being accosted? It is now a day when mallard fans gather at restaurants and feast on duck.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/june-5th-the-curious-case-of-dead-duck-day\/\">Today I Found Out<\/a>, but the circumstances prompting it turns out to be the proclivity towards rape by the male Mallard.<\/p>\n<p>So, my posting, the TED talk, and the article about Dead Duck Day, all came together.<\/p>\n<p>A scene from my posting about mallard rape.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mallard180509gs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A month ago, I posted a story, Mallard&#8217;s #metoo, about the gang rape of a mommy mallard. At the time, I did not relate my observations to a TED Talk, How a dead duck changed my life, I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23663"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23748,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23663\/revisions\/23748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}