Today's the day: it's Quack Friday, when brands, marketers and museums of English rural history join together across the world to share posts about ducks!

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This majestic goldeneye and her brood were a rare sight on a Hampshire river. People often reminisce about Goldeneye (the film) and Goldeneye (the videogame), and we hope that some day Goldeneye (the duck) will receive the proportionate critical acclaim they deserve

This much of a floof? Piers Brosnan could never

These ducks have turned off their phones and are enjoying living in the moment in a pond in Burghfield. It means they will not see these tweets but we hope that if they did they would appreciate them all the same

We can also see the light having a moment of reflection which in this busy life can never be a bad thing

Our archive notes say this action shot depicts ducks mid-race downstream, on the Thames. Unfortunately we don't know the results, and the photographer was unable to interview either the winner or runners-up for comment. However, we suspect the winner was, most likely, a duck

and not one of these two who headed to the afterparty before the race was even over

Lastly: these ducks, photographed by a pond in the West Oxfordshire village of Ducklington, have come to claim what was rightfully theirs

Braced for an all out aquack and no doubt flanking on the wings

we are receiving lots of emails from mysterious mailing lists about Black Friday and we hope we are doing this correctly

we do also have some very exciting online shop news to share with you very soon, but we are impatient as well as a museum, and are very excited to update you again very shortly!

we are also a twitter account, we contain multitudes, as well as (conveniently) an enormous archive of duck photos