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WATCH: Duck Family Stops By Bagel Shop On Park Slope's Fifth Ave.

A mother duck and her ducklings trotted down Fifth Avenue on Monday, making a quick stop at Bagel World before heading toward Prospect Park.

A mother duck and her ducklings trotted down Fifth Avenue on Monday, making a quick stop at Bagel World before heading toward Prospect Park.
A mother duck and her ducklings trotted down Fifth Avenue on Monday, making a quick stop at Bagel World before heading toward Prospect Park. (Courtesy of Doug Gordon.)

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Even New York City's wildlife know which bagels fit the bill.

A mother duck and her ducklings were spotted making the treacherous journey across Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue on Monday afternoon apparently with one stop in mind — Bagel World.

The mama bird, her eight babies in tow, visited the bagel shop after multiple people helped stop traffic so she could safely make it across the busy corridor, according to Doug Gordon, who took video of the “Make Way For Ducklings” moment.

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"No word on what they ordered," Gordon wrote.

The bagel stop didn't last too long, though.

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The duck family left the shop after just a few minutes, lured to the opposite curb with bread crumbs by Bagel World employees, Gordon said.

Gordon last spotted the ducks heading up Fourth Street toward Prospect Park. He later discovered that a man accompanied the family all the way to the park and watched them walk into the woods, according to his Tweets.

"Happy ending!" he wrote.

Prospect Park is about four blocks from the Fifth Avenue intersection.

The encounter is hardly the first time the quackarazzi have spotted birds journeying outside their home in New York City's parks.

Just last month, a mother and her ducklings were chaperoned back to Central Park with the help of the NYPD after they ventured onto the streets of the Upper East Side.

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