Mandarin patinkin

Where'd you go, Duckadette?

A new photo shows a Mandarin Duck in a woodland setting upstate.

Where did Mandarin Patinkin go, and when is he coming back? We try to piece it together.

'Every duck leaves, baby, that's a fact, but maybe every duck that leaves, someday comes back.'

The Hot Duck will become the Ugly Hot Duck and we'll still love him.

The Freewheelin' Mandarin Patinkin went to Brooklyn.

'Seeing the birds is like touching the hand of God,' one duck devotee insists.

We received video shot in October that shows the Mandarin duck in the Hudson River.

Where has the duck been spending his lost weekends? Not in New York...

Here's how the duck spent the day in the snow.

'For me a possible positive of duck mania is that this flamboyant fowl may be the spark that gets someone into birding... Or maybe he will just become the next Pizza Rat.'

We spoke with Mandarin Patinkin, Central Park's most famous duck, about his recent disappearance.