This seems to be in either southern India or Sri Lanka (readers please enlighted us), and I have no idea why there’s an invasion of ducks. Are they being driven somewhere?
h/t: Jim
Elebenty gazillion ducks
June 17, 2014 • 7:45 am
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Holy crap, that’s kinda scary.
Thailand, I think.
They’re being herded. Saw this in Kerala somewhere where the ‘duckherd’ was herding them from a coracle. Ducks. Thousands of them.
Elebenty gazillion??! Yea, the count seems pretty close, give or take a few. Does anybody know what’s going on here? The script seems Thai or Laotian to me…
Driving Miss Ducky?
That video is just too daffy!
Why, Duckburg, Calisota of course.
Wow. I’m amazed.
Glad nobody told ’em ducks can fly.
But that leads to what I think is a reasonably good question: if things are so crowded on the road, why don’t they fly?
Lazy?
Too hard to stretch out & take a run at it?
Most domesticated fowl don’t fly well. Unnatural selection at work.
When I was boy growing up on a farm I was in charge of our small flock of 20 chickens. One of my jobs was to clip the feathers of one wing of all the hens every couple of months so they couldn’t fly out of the pen. They couldn’t fly far, just enough to get away and possibly become fox food.
Our chickens could, with a great deal of effort, get onto a low tree branch. We didn’t clip their feathers. I guess the d*g kept the foxes at bay, and the hens always came back to the coop to roost at night.
If they flew about 6 feet off the ground, I’d have to duck!
That would be quackers!
I wonder, could they all be witches?
Who are you, who are wise in the ways of science?
Note the not too carefully concealed hint as the wise one’s identity: Drake-n.
If you weigh the same as a mega-raft of ducks – you could be the Titanic.
But – you’d still float, so – witch…
I don’t think they were being driven anywhere.
Looks like they were walking.
Good one!
That is awesome. Those ducks are well behaved.
I know – commuters aren’t usually known for their manners…
Ha ha! I love how the ducks are all chattering as they pass!
Ducks are some of the most opinionated of all the birds.
Yep, Thailand :).
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/415621/ducks-in-mass-revolt-in-nakhon-pathom
In China there was a similar event on a lower scale, with “only” 5000 ducks. By comparison here we’re probably at least on order of magnitude higher.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Ducks-in-China-cause-traffic-jam/15225816
Yes, I know about this. The video does not show it, but the birds are all following Konrad Lorenz.
+1 you win!
Wow, these ducks are more organized than my countrymen.
Some of the time the birds filled the road making little forward progress, perhaps blocked off camera by vehicles, turgidly puddling from edge to edge yet for some reason not surging off into the grass-ways on either side to maintain momentum. Something off-road the camera does not show may be responsible for this.
Throughout the rest of the video, though, when they (the flock?) were able to move along at a steady unimpeded clip, the fowl seemed to march in a swift disciplined column down road center, a fowl army unit passing in parade, maybe a couple of dozen birds per rank smartly goose-stepping along.
When I seize control of all world governments, it will be thanks to the selfless efforts of my duck army!
And I thought I was doing well with my unholy army of Shih Tzu’s.
You win.
But you had best hope they don’t turn on you!
Yes, I learned from the Romans to always keep your soldiers happy…or quacky.
It used to be that case that geese were herded to London for the Yuletide market, & they had their feet dipped in tar & sand to make little ‘shoes’ to protect their feet. A famous bet was made I recall when someone said he could drive a flock of Turkeys to London faster than a flock of geese but lost as the turkeys went to roost at night in trees, losing him time.
That’s a lot of ducks …
Oh, and, in virtue of one of the site’s other themes:
Londo Mollari: But this…this, this, this is like… being nibbled to death by, uh…Pah! What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet…go “quack”. Vir Cotto: Cats.
Londo: Cats! I’m being nibbled to death by cats.
They are domestic ducks. They are herded daily between night quarters and fields/paddies where they feed all day. They really cannot fly(only poorly at best)- domestication has much reduced their wing to body ratio.
Ducks run best on open flat ground and also they are ‘trained’ to stay on a regular route, that is why they are sticking to the road.
Basically in some countries they eat ducks and duck eggs like we do chickens and chicken eggs. That’s why this flock is huge. Demand and supply!
Idunno – looks to me like they’re marching off on a duck jihad.
Glad to report that those ducks taste delicious.
HHHHHmmmmmm Thailand… Land of the free…
They pretty much look the same. Could be supporters. Who’s playing today?
The real Duck Dynasty.
Dilly, dilly, dilly, dilly
Come and be killed,
For you must be stuffed
And my customers filled…
It is definitely Thailand-script and use of tones make it certain.
“How many times have I told you to CLOSE the GATE after yourself when you enter the farm?!”
Duck. It’s what’s for dinner.
…I said a million BUCKS!