It has enabled many hard-working Arkansans to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. And lest we forget, it also makes for fine table fare. Our second nominee is the mallard duck. It may be just as important to the eastern half of our state as the chicken is to the western half. Annually, more mallards winter in Arkansas than anywhere in the world.
Mallards love Arkansas and Arkansas loves mallards.
And lest we forget, a mallard makes for fine table fare. Detractors might say that mallards are not year-round residents. But I say the time they spend in Arkansas is time they choose to spend in Arkansas. The same can't be said for the aforementioned chickens. Through their migration, mallards are acting out an ancient drama from the cycle of life.