They have taken to each other like...well, like ducks to water. Which is all very disappointing for those in charge of Britain's blue duck breeding program-- because this pair of birds represents two-thirds of the entire population of blue ducks remaining in the UK. And they both happen to be male.Flying in the face of what was billed as the last chance of keeping the species in this country, the two male ducks have completely ignored their female companion, Cherry. Instead the boys of a feather have flocked together, and even engaged in courting rituals normally observed between mating pairs.
Officials have now given up all hope of the ducks breeding, and say the species will soon become extinct in this country. According to keepers, the duo are quackers about each other. "They stay together all the time, parading up and down their enclosure and whistling to each other as a male might do with a female he wants to mate with."
Of the lone female warden Paul Stevens said: "Cherry doesn't seem bothered by it - she's just happy to keep herself to herself."
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