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Simple answer is yes.If a meat is classified as a red meat for it's concentration of myoglobin then duck meat could be classified as a red meat. A physiological term would be "slow twitch" as opposed to "fast twitch" or dark v. white meat.

The color of the meat is a result of concentration of myoglobin in the muscle. Muscle that works hard needs oxygen and myoglobin binds oxygen like hemoglobin only better. This facilitates the movement of oxygen from the blood to the muscle cells. Ducks fly so their breast meat is red, chickens run so their legs and thighs are darker than their breast meat.

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