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Copyright: ben sampson (bensampysamp)
![Silver Star Critiquer [C: 15 W: 0 N: 4]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/s-n-n.gif) (80) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-05-11 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Exposure: f/3.2, 1/25 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-05-14 12:13 |
| Viewed: 271 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
4 ducks in a row i thought this was quit a nice photo because there are all sat nice and happy.
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.
The word duck (from Anglo-Saxon dūce), meaning the bird, came from the verb "to duck" (from Anglo-Saxon supposed *dūcan) meaning "to bend down low as if to get under something" or "to dive", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending (compare Dutch duiken, German tauchen = "to dive").
This happened because the older Anglo-Saxon words ened (= "duck") and ende (= "end") came to be pronounced the same: other Germanic languages still have similar words for "duck" and "end": for example, Dutch eend = "duck", eind = "end", German ente = "duck", ende = "end"; this similarity goes back to Indo-European: compare Latin anas (stem anat-) = "duck", Lithuanian antis = "duck", Ancient Greek νησσα, νηττα (nēssa, nētta) = "duck"; Sanskrit anta = "end".
Some people use "duck" specifically for adult females and "drake" for adult males, for the species described here; others use "hen" and "drake", respectively.
A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage[1] or baby duck.[2]; but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled "duckling".
This infomation was from this website = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck
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(18942) - [2008-05-18 8:26]
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Hello Ben, nice shot of those Mallards! Well seen and done, thanks!
Mario
