Duck Sightings

"Monday Night Football" featured an Original Wisconsin Duck in the opening moments of the Nov. 6, 2000 match up of the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field.

An Original Wisconsin Duck was featured in a chase scene for the independent feature film "UP, Michigan!" The romantic comedy features former Chicago Bear's coach Mike Ditka along with actors Eric Estrada and Joan Van Ark and will be released on cable.

Each spring a green and white Original Wisconsin Duck joins the celebration as part of the Chicago St. Patrick's Day parade.

The original HBO show "Band of Brothers," which debuted in 2001, regularly uses ducks as part of the series about World War II.

Historic newsreels show three major world leaders being ferried on to the beaches of Normandy by ducks following a grueling battle by the Allies to push back the Germans. In the days following D-Day, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Britain's King George VI, as well as the then soon-to-be French President Charles De Gaulle all came ashore on ducks.

Original Wisconsin Ducks make special appearances in parades and other events in Wisconsin.

The nation's largest fleet of amphibious tour ducks can be seen in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. The Original Wisconsin Ducks has 90 ducks in its fleet, three times as many as the next largest tour duck operator.

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