A duck has become alocal heroon a midget island in the Pacific , as it somehow made its means there to become the only duck on the island .
Trevor , as the mallard has affectionately been cognise , release up on the Pacific atoll of Niue in the first place this year . The island has a population of 1,600 multitude and , crucially , no ducks .
Except for Trevor that is , who has become a scrap of a renown . The island , which is specifically a coral atoll , lacks any wetland or pool , where a duck would normally make its home , so Trevor has been hanging out in a puddle near the airport . The local fire service and Tennessean have been make trusted the pool does n’t run dry .
“ Everyone ’s familiar with Trevor , ” said Kirk Yates , the New Zealand in high spirits commissioner in Niue , reportedThe Guardian . “ This is a minor spot right and a little celebrity duck is a novelty and people are quite implicated for its welfare . ”
No one is completely sure how the duck made it to the island . The predominant possibility is that he flew there , perhaps blown by a storm . But another theory is that he stow away on a ship .
" There was a gravy holder in the harbour about three days before the duck was first sighted in its puddle , " Claire Trevett , deputy political editor of the New Zealand Herald , toldABC News . She came upon the duck’s egg while visiting the island , with someone giving her charge to “ deform flop past the duck ” .
While there are other birds on the island , there are no other ducks for it to socialize with ( “ It ’s amaze no mates,”saidTrevett ) and is have a fleck of a sad fourth dimension . So the time to come of the duck’s egg is uncertain , with some proffer it should be take in to New Zealand .
strand creature fan might remember the fib ofNigel the gannet , who lived a lonely life on the uninhabited island of Mana from 2013 to 2018 . Conservation officers put reproduction gannet around him to keep him troupe , but when three material gannets get , he died calendar week later .
Hopefully , the story of Trevor will be a little less somber . Some have suggested pee likewise bastard wooden ducks to keep him party . For now , he ’s live alone in his puddle as a local famous person .
