Mallards, Little Ringed Plovers, Wagtails are all common visitors to the islets during the breeding season.
Formed by the Bahamas Locomotive Society, at its peak the museum used to feature visits by such famous railway engines as Flying Scotsman, Mallard, and A2 "Blue Peter" and various members of the LMS Jubilee Class.
The society took a lease on track based close to Dinting railway station, and created the Dinting Railway Museum, which at its peak used to feature visits by such famous railway engines as Flying Scotsman, Mallard, and A2 "Blue Peter" and various members of the LMS Jubilee Class.
Gresley developed an interest in breeding wild birds and ducks in the moat; intriguingly, among the species were Mallard ducks.
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An A1 pacific, Flying Scotsman, was the first steam locomotive officially recorded over 100 mph in passenger service, and an A4, number 4468 Mallard, still holds the record for being the fastest steam locomotive in the world (126 mph).
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A Miss Mallard Mystery is a Sino-Canadian mystery animated series produced by Cinar and Shanghai Animation Film Studio for the Teletoon network and OTV (Shanghai Media Group), loosely based on the Robert Quackenbush book series.
These are in may be derived from a common ancestor of the Pacific Black Duck, the Laysan Duck, and the Mallard, and an unknown amount of other lineages.
Now the home of the seventh and eighth generation of the family, author Anne Butler and her daughter Chase Poindexter, Butler Greenwood is a simple, raised cottage-style plantation home filled with oil portraits, Brussels carpet, gilded pier mirrors, Mallard poster beds, fine china and silverware, a French Pleyel grand piano, and the area’s finest original Victorian formal parlor, its twelve matching pieces still in the original upholstery.
Hale's book, Mallard - How the Blue Streak broke the World Speed Record, was first released in paperback by Aurum Press in May 2008 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the speed record for steam locomotives held by LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard.
On 3 July 1938, Essendine saw the London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 locomotive number 4468 "Mallard" break the land speed record for a steam locomotive reaching 126mph, which is still unbroken to this day.
A similar program has been undertaken by Paspaley Pearling in combination with Aeronautical Engineers Australia to re-engine and modernize its Mallard fleet, which is used to support its pearling operations in Northern Australia.
Of the two lakes built in the garden, the larger lake, located in the centre of the park, is the habitat for water birds such as Mallard, Moorhen, Ring-necked Parakeet, White Wagtail, Wren, Blackbird, Blackcap, House Sparrow, Serin, and Greenfinch.
The Blue-winged teal is the most common migratory duck species found in the district, but Mallards and Northern shovelers as well as numerous other duck species also have been observed.
In 1998, the John Mallard Scottish PET Centre was opened in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by the Minister for Health, Sam Galbraith.
Sir Nigel Gresley of the LNER became a proponent when he incorporated double Kylchap exhausts into four of his A4 Pacifics, including the world speed record holder Mallard.
Kylchap exhausts are found on many French and British locomotives notably the Flying Scotsman and the world record holding Mallard.
Birdlife that can been seen on lake include the introduced Mallard and Feral Goose and the native New Zealand Scaup, Australasian Crested Grebe and the Black Shag.
The Black-billed Gull is often found around the lake while the most common birds are the Black-billed Gull and the introduced Mallard.
Many rare trees (remnants of a botanic garden) and animals such as mallards, moorhens, coots, and even Egyptian geese and rose-ringed parakeets thrive in this urban environment.
The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-plumaged duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C. Mallard's name is a pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.
Millard the Mallard first appeared in September 1972 as a joke when John Harding, of the WRVA news staff, started making a Donald Duck-type voice during Alden Aaroe's morning show.
Mallard then assigns two nurses to train the Stooges, which sends the boys head over heels into fits of love — until the nurses turn out to be men (Cy Schindell and Rocky Woods).
Grey Heron is a characteristic species in the area along with Mallard.
Sculptor Nancy Schön created a bronze version of Mrs. Mallard and the ducklings in 1987, installed along a walkway between pond and street.
In April 2002, Trevor Mallard made crude comments about inserting beer bottles into "uncomfortable places" of International Rugby Board chairman Vernon Pugh and Australian Rugby boss John O'Neill during a radio interview about following the withdrawal of co-hosting rights for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.