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A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)
A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)

A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)

Date4/28/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in Pickering. The female mallard has returned to roost at the school for seven years in a row, and has produced 65 ducklings in that time. Experts say ducks are territorial, and will return year after year to a successful nesting spot. After about two weeks, the ducks will go to a secret place in a nearby marsh.
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Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
4/30/1986
All set for class. For the past four years, Mama Duck has laid her eggs near a wading pool in the central courtyard of Dunbarton High School in Picker(...)
All set for class. For the past four years, Mama Duck has laid her eggs near a wading pool in the central courtyard of Dunbarton High School in Picker(...)
5/10/1984
Protective custody: A chicken on small Markham farm rented by Michael and Sandra Wall keeps a close watch over the eight ducklings it hatched after the eggs were abandoned by the mother duck
Protective custody: A chicken on small Markham farm rented by Michael and Sandra Wall keeps a close watch over the eight ducklings it hatched after the eggs were abandoned by the mother duck
6/10/1991
Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)
Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)
5/14/1991
Everything's ducky: Famous Dunbarton Duck and offspring do an encore
Everything's ducky: Famous Dunbarton Duck and offspring do an encore
5/9/1989
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
2/27/1974
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
12/13/1971
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
2/3/1975
Cold duck freed from the ice. Rescuing ducks and Canada geese frozen in the ice at the foot of Spadina Ave., Dale Griffin, 22, carries a mallard he ha(...)
Cold duck freed from the ice. Rescuing ducks and Canada geese frozen in the ice at the foot of Spadina Ave., Dale Griffin, 22, carries a mallard he ha(...)
2/4/1976
Mother Duck's children
Mother Duck's children
1900
Crackers for quackers: Theresa scully, of Ireland, and grand daughter Keelin, 1, feed the ducks at Urban River Circle in Newmarket
Crackers for quackers: Theresa scully, of Ireland, and grand daughter Keelin, 1, feed the ducks at Urban River Circle in Newmarket
10/15/1992
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
2/20/1977