DUCKS
Bird     -     Vertebrate      -      Omnivore
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MALLARD DRAKE
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MANDARIN DUCK
  • Are related to geese and swans
  • Have very waterproof feathers with a waxy coating
  • Have a downy under-layer of feathers
  • Have webbed feet that act as paddles, so that they waddle instead of walk or hop
  • Have good eyesight
  • When preening, they spread the waxy coating on each feather
  • Ducking are covered in down
  • When nesting, the female will pluck her own down to line the nest
  • Eat grass, aquatic plants, insects, seeds, fruit and fish
  • Can live between 2-12 years, depending upon the species
  • A duck's quack does not echo, and nobody knows why
  • Most ducks don't quack
  • A duck's egg was found with live fish inside it - it was found in a pond in the French Alps
  • Cannot walk without bobbing its head

There are more than 40 breeds of domestic ducks

Male  .........................................................  Drake
Female  .....................................................  Duck.  Hen
Young   ......................................................  Duckling

SIMILES
  1. As readily and naturally as ducklings take to water
  2. As lame as a duck
  3. Like a sitting duck
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FEMALE DUCK
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DUCK EGG WITH THREE MINNOWS INSIDE

COLLECTIVE NOUNS
  1. A badelynge of ducks
  2. A bunch of ducks
  3. A flush of ducks
  4. A spring of teals

In flight
  1. A flock of ducks

On the ground
  1. A balding of ducks
  2. A brace of ducks

In the water
  1. A padding of ducks
  2. A raft of ducks
  3. A team of ducks
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  1. A dead duck
  2. A duck's egg
  3. A duck in a thunderstorm
  4. A lame duck
  5. A sitting duck
  6. An ugly duckling
  7. Biggest duck in the puddle
  8. Dead duck
  9. Duck in a thunderstorm
  10. Duck out
  11. Duck soup
  12. Ducky!
  13. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it must be a duck
  14. Lame duck
  15. Like a dying duck
  16. Like a pair of ducks
  17. Like a sitting duck
  18. Like water off a duck's back
  19. Take to (something), like a duck to water
  20. To break one's duck
  21. To play ducks and drakes with
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MALE CAROLINA DUCK
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WOOD DUCKLING