New B.C. short film shines spotlight on the 'fancy ducks' of the West Coast

British Columbia is home to some majestic beasts — cougars, grizzly bears, killer whales — but a couple of avid birders based on Vancouver Island say one of the province’s most attractive yet underrated creatures is the duck.

Connel Bradwell and Ryan Wilkes from Victoria, B.C., have teamed up to create the new short film Fancy Ducks that showcases four different breeds of ducks that can be spotted in the province that the duo have deemed, well, fancy.

Their criteria for fancy does not follow a scientific formula, but more of a superficial one: if the duck makes you do a double take because it is