Dendrocygninae
Oxyurinae
Anatinae
Merginae Duck is the most common title for the total of metal money in the Anatidae bird family. A ducks come divided between many different subfamilies enrolled fully in the Anatidae article. Ducks come mostly aquatic birds, mostly little than their relatives a swans and geese, and can be observed within two fresh and salt water.

Ducks exploit the kind of food sources like grasses, grains and aquatic plants, fish, insects, and a rather. the healthy processed by a select few female ducks is known as a "quack"; the most common (& treacherously) urban legend is that quacks do not develop an echo.

A males (drakes) of northern coinage typically develop showy plumage, but this is moulted in summertime to give a other female-rather (hen) appearance, the "eclipse" feather. Inside numbers of coinage, molt birds come temporarily flightless; it search out secure home ground using serious food the diapers when you took this time period. This ecdysis usually precedes migration.

A bit of duck coinage, chiefly victims breeding in the moderate & arctic northern hemisphere, come migrant, however others are not. A select few, particularly around Australia where rainfall is patchy & erratic, come peregrine, looking for out a irregular streams, lakes, & wells throughout and pools that form when localised heavily rain.

Inside numerous areas, uncivilized ducks of various coinage come hunted for even food or sport, by shooting, or once by decoys. From either this come a expression "sitting duck" to mean "an easy target".

Ducks keep around numerous economic utilizes, existence farmed for their meat, eggs, feathers and down feathers. Virtually all domestic ducks were bred from a untamed Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, but several breeds stand get tremendously big than their untamed root, sustaining the "hull length" (from either base of neck to base of after part) of Twelve inches or even supplementary & habitually entity to drink an adult British Common Frog, Rana temporaria, whole.

Ducks come for instance confused by using many types of unrelated waterbird sustaining similar forms, like loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.

Etymology
A word duck meaning a bird, come from either a verb "to duck" meaning to bend down when whenever for under something, because of the way numerous coinage in the dabbling duck group feed by upending (compare a Dutch word duiken = "to dive").

This happened because a older Old English word for "duck" came to become pronounced a equivalent when a word for "end": more Germanic languages however own similar words for "duck" & "end": for instance, Dutch eend = "duck", eind = "end".

Gallery
Image:Comb duck.jpg|An African Comb Duck Image:duck-in-ground.jpg|Drake Mallard Image:ruddy.shelduck.jean arp.Ii.750pix.jpg|Ruddy Shelduck - not the duck, however the member of the Tadorninae

Fictional ducks
Kyanchome from the anime series Zatch Bell The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (In the end non actually the duckling, however the Cygnet) Walt Disney's Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and Darkwing Duck. It is modeled fallowing a Pekin duck. Warner Bros.' Daffy Duck and Plucky Duck. Alfred J. Kwak, Dutch cartoon character Various mascots, including the University of Oregon Ducks, the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team, the National Hockey League's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, and a United Hockey League's Quad City Mallards. Joey's & Chandler's pet The Duck from the popular Western sitcom Friends Duckman Drake, a mechanical man shotgun-wielding duck from either a Timesplitters video games Psyduck from the commodities trading cards & Anime series Pokemon The duck in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go," who at a prevent swallowed a title character The Aflac duck The Mighty Ducks movies Howard the Duck Montague, the steam engine from either The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry is better known as Duck. Jemimah Puddleduck from either a British children author Beatrix Potter.