Miracle Surface Discovery

The substance on which these duck fowl are travelling is as yet unidentified.  It is clearly thick and viscous, else it would not bunch up as though it were a heavy silky satin (or warm tar, as the dictionary tackily puts it).

The substance is deeply pigmented, and some have suggested it is actually a blue form of  heavy  rubbery cream.  It appears to support vegetation.   The duck fowl seem unharmed, even happy.  Other researchers have suggested that the surface substance itself is edible. 

The  duck fowl also appear to be suspended on the surface itself rather than to be floating within it.

The surface is also reflective of fauna while remaining optically neutral to flora.