NFRC Chair, Jeff Baker, served as Honorary Duckmaster yesterday, escorting the Peabody Ducks along the red carpet to their penthouse home on the Plantation Roof via the lobby elevator.

According to The Peabody Hotel website, the time-honored tradition of the March of the Peabody Ducks began in the early 1930s.

At 11 a.m. each morning, the ducks march from their rooftop home known as Royal Duck Palace along a red carpet to the tune of John Philip Sousa’s “King Cotton March” to a marble fountain at the center of the hotel’s lobby. At 5 p.m., the procession reverses and the ducks retire for the evening.

When off-duty they live in the Royal Duck Palace, a $200,000 marble and glass structure that includes its own fountain.  

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