A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
I had a few ducks as a kid.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.