My friend Kitty collects rubber ducks - she has a total of 32 rubber ducks, if she found one she would probebly keep it....lol...xxx

Amy Hough, london, England

I used the rubber duck saga with my secondary school kids in the British Interntional school in Mexico City last year .
It really caught their attention and they wrote the most fabulous stories about their lives as rubber duck-flotsam ! So...to have this update for them now is excellent.

Samantha Mace, Mexico,

I wrote a lengthy cover story about the journey of the toys for the January 2007 issue of Harper's Magazine ("Moby-Duck, or, The Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood," www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/0081345). The journey makes for a good story, but as the ducks have circulated through the media for the last fifteen years, they've turned into chimeras, part fiction, part fact. The coast of New England was similarly forewarned of a duckie invasion in 2003, but the only somewhat credible sighting--the one in Maine--is doubtful at best. If you do go duckie hunting, look for the following identifying characteristics: The toys are made from rigid not pliable plastic. Bleached by the sun, the ducks will be white or off-white, and the beavers will be off-white or beige. The turtles will still be blue, however, and the frogs still green. Only the ducks bear the First Years logo, which appears on its right flank, where the wing would be if it had one. Good luck.

Donovan Hohn, New York, NY

i collect rubber ducks... i have 4 in total.... YES 4! and im proud!

i want one of these special ones :(:(:(
imm gonna go on a HUNT! :D

Fiona Henderson, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Is each duck really worth £1000 right now? I really wanna know if it is true or not?

chow, Burnage,

I wanna find a duck! I keep looking for them but I haven't found one yet. I wouldn't pay 500 quid for one though!

Celia, Faringdon,

I've been finding these ducks, beavers ,turtlesand frogs since the begining.I have one of the larger collections in my home town of Sitka AK I've never counted but I figure theres at least 30.My last find was 6-15-07 on the west side of Kruzof island in Southeast Alaska it was a well worn beaver It seems to me the most commen to find are the turtles.Some of my collection I have written dates and locations.Next to finding glass balls these bath toys are a good find to those of us that love to beach comb.

Bill Grant , Sitka, alaska

I've been finding these ducks, beavers ,turtlesand frogs since the begining.I have one of the larger collections in my home town of Sitka AK I've never counted but I figure theres at least 30.My last find was 6-15-07 on the west side of Kruzof island in Southeast Alaska it was a well worn beaver It seems to me the most commen to find are the turtles.Some of my collection I have written dates and locations.Next to finding glass balls these bath toys are a good find to those of us that love to beach comb.

Bill Grant , Sitka, alaska

My mum found one on the beach in North Devon - look out for the picture in the Western Morning News tomorrow (13/7/07).

Steve, Ivybridge, Devon

er.. any guess about number of those plastic ducks consumed by sea habitants?? and how many of them got harmed or were choken to death??

Armand, B'ham, UK

According to Dutch law a bathtub duck is a vessel!
Art.8:1 Dutch Civil Code gives the following definition of a vessel: In this code, vessels are all objects other than aircraft, which according to their construction, are destined to float and which float or have done so.
Art. 3:2 Dutch Civil Code: Objects are corporeal (tangible) objects susceptible of human control.
As you see, as long as the bathtub duck has been in the water, it fully complies with the definition of a vessel.
My students never forget their first classes in Maritime law, when I show them my collection of ducks.
This is no double Dutch but serious legal talk.
P.S. Our well-known author Rasha Peper read the story about the ducks in the ocean and the oceanographer in the late nineties and she based her successful novel “Voor wie scheep gaat” on this story. She was quite surprised to learn that her bathtub ducks are all seagoing vessels...

M.H. Claringbould, Rotterdam, Netherlands

We will be holidaying in Cornwall in a couple of months - I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled!

Simon Harrison, Southampton,

excellent fun they must have had!!! wonder5 if i could find a copuple, make some £££!!!

curtis pincher, barmouth, wales

If they could talk, They'd demand tyhe RSPCA sued someone for letting them suffer :D

Andy, burnley, UK

If I found one, I'd have to call it "Bob".

Martin, Dundee, Scotland

To Billy Waters:
Surely there's as much a "southern Ireland" as there is a "western Scotland"?

Bobbo, Bangor, Wales

Us and Oliver and George Hampton will be searching for mac macs in August!

Paul Hampton, Bognor Regis, UK

Relax Billy,
Southern Ireland means just that!
The Southern part of the country of Ireland.
We all know that it is a sovereign country! Duh!
Quack Quack
Duh!

Kaan, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Us and Oliver and George Hampton will be searching for mac macs in August!

Paul Hampton, Bognor Regis, UK

Mr Billy Waters, get the chip off your shoulder. What the writer wrote was "southern Ireland" (no capital "S"), clearly meaning "the southern parts of the island of Ireland. Nothing wrong with that, I think ?

Kim Speight, Leicester, UK (but with 25% irish blood)

Billy Waters - southern Ireland refers to the south coast of Ireland surely, just as the article refers to the south west of England ie Devon and Cornwall.

I will most definitely be looking out for the little fellows, they are accompanied by beavers, turtles, and frogs apparently.

Rebecca Pepperell, Newquay, Cornwall

Billy - your national pride has I think blinded you to what they mean! I understand Southern Ireland to mean the southern part of the island of Ireland - i.e. prob around Co Kerry etc

Anna, Liverpool,

And there I was thinking I had a worthwhile job...

PB, London,

Were is Southern Ireland? By this I think you mean Ireland. Ireland is the country. Northern Ireland is a province of the UK. We are not the Southern part of anything.

I will keep an eye out for the ducks.

Billy Waters, Dublin, Ireland

Right, we're off to the beach!
Fascinating story, has the documentary been made yet?

Emma, West Coast of Scotland, UK

Great news! I missed them when they visited Australia and now they are heading to the UK where I now live. Hopefully I will get to see them this time around. One must admire their migratory habits.

Michael , London, Wimbledon

Fantastic news ! These immigrants are most welcome.

Jack Berry, Leeds, W. Yorks

history in the making, slo-motion style

dona turner, gig harbor, usa/wa

If you write that the ducks can fetch £500, you are not going to help the scientists' cause,as handing the ducks over to them only yields 1/10th of the profit. Now perhaps a new study can be carried out: How many treasure research for the general good more than personal gain? Somehow, educated guesses are likely to come close to the results.

elizabeth schumann, Paris, France

Any pictures off of google earth?

spalding balding, sebastopol, california

excellent article, I enjoy it every time a story about these ducks pops up...does anyone know the name of the books written about them? would love to pick them up

John D, Washington, DC, USA

A quacking good story...!

John Robinson, Drakes Bottom, UK

I so wanted to go to the east coast of the U.S. and look for these adventurers.

This is one of the stories that has got to make you think.
If only Friendly Floatees could talk!

jim, atlanta, usa

This is just Quackers!

Michael Rigby, Chorley, England