what is a duck?

Answer 1

Do you want to tell me you have never seen a duck before.


A duck is a a water bird, that lives in and on the water, eats fish snails anything it can basically get it beak onto.
It has two legs and the rest of the body is covered in feathers.
When on the water the water does not seap into it's feathers as it has a special layer of feathers that protects the bird from the cold water.

Answer 2

Okay, fresh from Wikipedia:

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than their relatives the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.

Most ducks have a wide flat beak adapted for dredging. They exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, grains and aquatic plants, fish, and insects. Some (the diving ducks) forage deep underwater; the others (the dabbling ducks feed from the surface of water or on land. Dabbling ducks have special plates called lamellae[1] that are similar to a whale's baleen. These tiny rows of plates along the inside of the bill allow them to filter water out of the side of their bills and keep the food inside. To be able to submerge easier, the diving ducks are heavier for size than dabbling ducks, and therefore have more difficulty taking off to fly. A few specialized species (the goosander and the mergansers) are adapted to catch large fish.

The males (drakes) of northern species often have showy plumage, but this is moulted in summer to give a more female-like appearance, the "eclipse" plumage. Many species of ducks are temporarily flightless while moulting; they seek out protected habitat with good food supplies during this period. This moult typically precedes migration.

Some duck species, mainly those breeding in the temperate and arctic Northern Hemisphere, are migratory, but others are not. Some, particularly in Australia where rainfall is patchy and erratic, are nomadic, seeking out the temporary lakes and pools that form after localised heavy rain.

Some people use the words "duck" specifically for adult females and "drake" for adult males, of the species described here. Others use "hen" and "drake", respectively.

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

I hope I've helped.

Answer 3

mmmmmmm... thats a tricky one. It's a bird that goes on water with a strange beak that looks like two pringle on top of each other (with one upside down) type it into google

Answer 4

means you bend down