Hey Duckie !The mallard was domesticated in China some 3000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. Force feeding of ducks is documented from the tenth century, under the five dynasties. The Chinese were sophisticated breeders of ducks; among several breeds they created was one named shi chin ya tze, which roughly translates to "ten pound duck", from which the American Pekin derives. In 1872, James E. Palmer of Stonington, Connecticut , loaded fifteen white ducks

Kingfishers eat small fish like minnows and sticklebacks

meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted

It was widened

the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption

including the Galway Arts Festival

The site of this church was near the present convent of the Sisters of Mercy on Sharman Crawford Street

Geoffrey Spratt

to Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and to St

A wild and exposed stretch of beach divided by a rocky outcrop

they utter a sharp note that sounds like scape

They have a wing-span of about 25cm (length from wing-tip to wing-tip)

the west side of the square was pedestrianised in 2006