This is a game piece for a really fun game called ChickyBoom. The fact that some of the game pieces are purple chickens just makes it that much more entertaining.
Doug carves the bird while my mom supervises; on the other side of the kitchen, Marla and Sarah dish up the cranberry sauce. Everyone else is drooling at the table.
As this bird came in for a splash landing, the little girl ahead of me on the bridge called out “A swan!” to which her not-much-older sister replied, “No it’s not. It’s a duck.” As I passed them I told their mom what it really was. She was impressed.