William Cullen Bryant wrote the poem "To a Waterfowl" in 1818. It reflects on the journey of a solitary bird and draws parallels to the poet's own life journey.

Mrs. Mallard's sister suffers from heart trouble in the story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The specific nature of her heart condition is not specified in the text.

An incubator.

There are 13 species of albatross left in the world with 750,000 breeding pairs. All species of albatross are considered endangered species.

It swallows monkeys and farts nauctious fumes

it depends on what water it lives in.

They do indeed eat the chicks of other birds as I have seen first hand a small to medium sized Pied Shag/Cormorant pursue and catch a Hard Head/White eyed duckling while its mum tried vainly to ward the Shag off. The Shag simply submerges, and once under the chick, pulls it down and swims off, surfacing a safe distance from the mother to devour the unfortunate little thing.

In one of my local parks (Queen's Gardens Perth WA) there is small lake system and the breeding birds include, Pacific Black ducks, Hard Head / White eyed Ducks, Wood ducks, lesser Swamp hens, Coots, Dab Chicks and a pair of Black Swans.

From several years of observation I have concluded that not one Hard Head ducklings lives longer than 10 days, 98 percent of Pacific Black ducklings suffer the same fate. Wood Duck ducklings do better (approx 30 percent survive) as they spend most of their time on land.

Less than 10 percent of Swamp Hen and Coot chicks make it to adult hood. The dab chick couple have had two chicks in total (that I've seen) one this spring and one two springs back, in approx 5 years. Both babies were close to maturity when I last saw them so I assume they survived and flew off to another water system. Whether or not they had siblings I can't say as I've never discovered their nests.

The Black Swan cygnets as as you would expect, have an excellent survival percentage. I can only recall 4 cygnets vanishing from more that 20 hatchlings over approx 6 years.

I know that Crows, Sea gulls, Herons, Falcons, maybe Pelicans, Cats and probaly even Rats will predate on ducklings but I am now convinced that the high mortality rate in Queens Gardens is mostly due to Cormorants. The fact that Wood Duck ducklings spend less time on the water than the other chick types and have the highest survival rate support this theory. I don't yet know if all of the 3 or so types of Shags in the Park have the same feeding behaviour but I believe they do as when hatchlings are about I haven't yet seen any Shags diving for fish. They spend most of their day sunbathing probably as a result of them being well sustained by a couple of hatchlings per day.

FYI.

365 days - sleep occurs while drifting on the north Atlantic currents. Breeding occurs midflight and is extremely satisfying.

Determining the sex of a goldfish is not always easy. If it's breeding season, a male will get what are called breeding stars on their gill plates; they look like tiny white dots. Sometimes the males will have them for longer, but that's not always the case.
The easiest way of course would be if a female releases eggs in your tank after being chased by a male.

No She will leave to eat, drink and deficate but otherwise stays with the clutch unless chased off.

they have laws against killing them and hunting them they used to be hunted for their feathers some stuff the government cant pretect like their nest getting destroyed by global polution and mother nature(like valcone eruptions) i am working on a huge project on this so i had 2 know all this 2

No, but there are about only 500 left, counting wild and human-raised chicks & adults .

No

"booby" is a Spanish term for "bobo" which means stupid clown or clumsy. These birds are very clumsy on land and they have the name blue footed because they have blue webbed feet.

Duck Hunting is legal. As long as it is within seasons regulated by the Department of Conservation.

If you meant Illegal, then no. The population of ducks would quickly overpopulate causing a decline in food and then sickness and starvation would result.

brown white black because some ducks live in trees. so if you were a bird and you had to protect them and you lived in a tree you would want to blend in. like wood ducks.

Domestic ducks are all variants of mallards, except muskies (muscovies), which are S American wood-ducks. There are many breeds that come in white, almost all breeds do, some come only in white.

Albatrosses pair up for life and they do return to land and to their nesting sites. Breeding pairs usually produce just one egg per year. Nesting sites are almost always in very remote small islands where they go unobserved by humans. It is something of a myth that they never come to dry land. They are capable of flying vast distances by locking their wings, at what would be our shoulder joint, and gliding on thermals or local air pressure 'pockets' formed by the swell or waves at sea. They can cover thousands of miles in this way. They are very unusual in that they can drink sea water and have a method of getting rid of the salt. They can feed by diving for fish and squid etc close to the surface and can also take fish from the surface with their beak as they skim the surface. They are known to live beyond 50 years.

To stand on (like on branches of trees.) Some birds use their feet in different ways. The feet of aquatic birds (ducks, penguins, etc.) are webbed for swimming. Predatory birds (eagles, hawks, owls) have talons which they use to catch their prey. Large flightless birds (ostriches, emus) use their feet for running very fast.

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buoy meets gull...