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Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies in the Anatidae family.

Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.

Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.

Ducks exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects, small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs.

Diving ducks and sea ducks forage deep underwater. To be able to submerge more easily, the diving ducks are heavier than dabbling ducks, and therefore have more difficulty taking off to fly.

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Dabbling ducks feed on the surface of water or on land, or as deep as they can reach by up-ending without completely submerging.

Swans and geese are not considered ducks.

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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
- Tom Shales

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A few feathers short of a whole duck
- Author unknown

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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open, before a roast duck will fly in
- Proverb

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Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath
- Jacob Braude

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Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.
- Henrik Ibsen

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An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.
- Thomas Merton

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And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?
- Edward Lear

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Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
- Charles Lamb

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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
- Hans Christian Andersen

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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid, journalist. (1912-1992)

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Desperate ducks commit desperate acts!
- Howard T. Duck

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Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest…
- Norman Vincent Peale

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Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
- Ken Blanchard

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Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide
- Hebrew Proverb

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Every duck has his limit, and you scum have pushed me over the line!
- Howard T. Duck

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Happy as a duck in water
- Proverb

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain
- Douglas Jerrold

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Hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.
- William Shakespeare

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Honey, I forgot to duck. (to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title)
- Jack Dempsey

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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he’s a weird duck but I like him a lot.
- Peter Tork

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I look like a duck. It’s the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
- Michelle Pfeiffer

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I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
- David Knopfler

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I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don’t know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I’ll have a longer shelf life.
- Robert Carlyle

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
- Douglas Adams

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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck
- Proverb

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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
- Mark Twain

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I’m like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.
- Fred Shero

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I’m the lamest lame duck there could be.
- George Wallace

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In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
- Jim Sensenbrenner

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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband…..but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
- Isabella Beeton

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It rolled like water off a duck’s back
- Proverb

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It rolled off my back like a duck
- Samuel Goldwyn

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It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
- Cat Stevens

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“There was an Old Person of Bray,
Who sang through the whole of the day
To his ducks and his pigs,
whom he fed upon figs,
That valuable Person of Bray.
- Edward Lear, English artist, (1812-1888)

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It’s as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.
- Irish Proverb

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judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
- Bobby Fischer

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Like a duck out of water
- Proverb

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
- Confucius

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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
- Chinese Proverb

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Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
- Richard Lewis

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No duck is an island.
- Howard T. Duck from the movie Howard the Duck (1986)

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No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!
- Howard T. Duck

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Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Chinese Proverb

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Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Proverb

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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
- Lucian Freud

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Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
- Graham Greene

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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
- Orson Welles

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Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
- Billie Holiday

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Sir, we had a rubber…duck contingency. – It’s been aborted
- Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)

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sky, points to a seagull, and says, ‘Duck!’…
- Russell Crowe

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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
- Tim Vine

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Take three quarts of duck’s milk.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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That’s it, no more Mr. Nice Duck.
- Howard T. Duck

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That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
- George Foreman

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The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
- Jamie Muir

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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
- C. Wright Mills

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The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck
- Walter Cronkite

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
- Igor Stravinsky

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What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
- Alice B. Toklas

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What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo
- Dave Barry

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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
- Doug Coupland

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- James Whitcomb Riley

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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
- Penelope Cruz

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With a rubber duck, one’s never alone
- Author unknown

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You can’t aim a duck to death.
- Beverly Sills

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You know, it’s just one small step from legacy to lame duck.
- Bill Clinton

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You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that’s how I go about it.
- Alan Rudolph

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