This year’s Dead Duck Day official celebration will be in the Azores. And of course you can celebrate it wherever you are. The celebration will happen on June 5, 2025, Thursday, 15:55 [Azores time], at the Museu Carlos Machado Divulgação, Santo André Center, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores. This will be the 30th Dead […]
The 25th Dead Duck Day, on June 5th, which was postponed from 2020 until 2021, will be more or less postponed till 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So be on the lookout for the special (postponed) 25th anniversary edition in 2022. This year, like last year, Dead Duck Day will have only two participants […]
Tonight, August 29, 2020, is International Bat Night. The UNEP/Eurobats organization explains: The Bat Night has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries on the last full weekend of August. Nature conservation agencies and NGOs from across Europe pass on information to the public about the way bats live and their […]
The 24th annual Dead Duck Day celebration happens on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Dead Duck Day honors the mallard duck that became known to science as the first (documented) ‘victim’ of homosexual necrophilia in that species, and earned its discoverer, Kees Moeliker, the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize. Kees Moeliker, who is now director of the […]
