It's a duck that lives on coastal regions. It's sometimes called an Eider.
Eider
The correct spelling is downy duck. A downy duck is an eider. Eiders are large sea ducks that have soft down used for nests by the females.
The correct spelling is downy duck. A downy duck is an eider. Eiders are large sea ducks that have soft down used for nests by the females.
Eider is a large Northern Sea Duck. The fluffy fine feathers from the breast of the duck (known as down) are the source of Eiderdown, long a prized, warm filling for coats, sleeping bags and featherbeds.
The Eider duck, a source of eiderdown
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A calloo is a long-tailed duck, Latin name Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
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Eider
Partially. The body,head, and beak of the duck are made up by the Mediterranean Sea while the duck's right wing (from its perspective) is the Adriatic Sea and the left wing (the one closest to us, the viewer) is the Black Sea (much larger than the Adriatic). When looked at from a far, such as on a map, the image of a duck in flight from a side view can be seen. I hope that wasn't too confusing. This may help:
This is short for 'out for a duck's egg', the duck's egg being the large nought (0) recorded on the scoreboard. The expression is recorded from the 1860s.