What is the difference between a duck and a goose?
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Both birds belong to the family Anatidae, but have distinct characteristics.\n\nThe goose (male--gander) is a medium to large bird and makes a honking call. ("True geese" belong to the subfamily Anserinae.) Non-domesticated geese are very migratory, flying from far north to far south. Geese eat a vegetarian diet.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=19498\n\nThe duck (male--drake) is smaller than the goose and the female often has a call more similar to "quack". (Contrary to popular belief, it does echo.) Ducks belong to several different subfamilies. Almost all domesticated ducks (excluding some in Central America) are descended from the Mallard, so they have very similar forms. Some duck species don't migrate, and some moult before migration, temporarily rendering them flightless. Many ducks eat fish, amphibians, and insects.\n\nLooks like biggest difference is if they honk or quack.
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Pekin ducks (not "peking duck", the Chinese dish) are the white domestic ducks.  \n\nThere are many other ducks, including mallards.  Mallard drakes have are partly green, and the hens are brown.
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I dunno. I think I'm on the right track tho. Because a duck has a bill, aka a dollar bill....but i don't know what the skunk and the toad have....But if the question was who CAN get it. i would win, because then it would be the duck..
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Yeah, all ducks have webbed feet, although in some species the webbing isn't as complete and can be harder to see.\n\nBut the birds you saw are almost certainly coots. Your description fits them to a 'T' in both size, colouration and behaviour. Coots are vicious greedy little buggers.\n\nHave a look at the links below to see if they look familiar
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Lots of animals are habitual, meaning they will return to the same spots for mating, nesting, etc.  Birds are particularly good at it, just look at their migratory patterns, they will usually make the same pit stops along the way.  Chances are they are the same geese, and they have picked that spot to be their love nest.  aww...  If it's a good spot and other geese know about it, you might see another couple in the future, who knows?
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Yes, seagulls are bigger than doves.  Most seagulls are white while doves are brown to gray.
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Although Canada didn't officially become a country until 1867, the region was known as Canada long before that.  Many of the critters described from the region were given the name because they were found in the region of Canada.\n\nThe scientific name Branta canadensis was designated by Linnaeus in 1758, which is when the binomial system of biological nomenclature was first developed, so it would indicate that the Canada Goose was probably known as the Canada Goose at that time.\n\nI can't find any records of the Canada Goose ever having another name, other than the various names for the animal in the many native languages.  It appears to have been the only English name ever used for the species.
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Ducks are generally split into a couple of different groups based on their feeding/wading habits.\n\nDabbling ducks are those ducks that feed on the surface, and tip themselves up to dunk their heads underwater to feed.  They are light, buoyant ducks and have difficulty submerging themselves even if they want to.  Mallards are the most familiar of this type of duck, and their feeding style with their butt stuck up in the air while their head is underwater is typical.  It's because they are light and full of air, with fluffy, air capturing feathers.  Because they are lighter, they are strong, fast flyers and can spring straight into the air from a pond and take off quickly (as any duck hunter can tell you).\n\nThe other group is the diving ducks, such as Goldeneye.  These ducks are much denser, and don't float as easily.  They usually swim below the surface of the water when feeding, and will also often escape that way too.  They don't sit around with their butts in the air.  Because they are denser, and their legs tend to be situated farther back on their bodies (to propel them through the water more efficiently), they often need to get a running start before they can start flying.  You may see them motorboating along, paddling furiously as they flap their wings down the pond/runway before they finally become airborne.
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Wikipedia tells us this:\n\nThe word duck meaning the bird, came from the verb "to duck" meaning to bend down as if to get under something, because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending (compare the Dutch word duiken = "to dive").\n\nThis happened because the older Old English word for "duck" came to be pronounced the same as the word for "end": other Germanic languages still have similar words for "duck" and "end": for example, Dutch eend = "duck", eind = "end"; compare Latin anas (stem anat-) = "duck", Sanskrit anta (masc.) = "end", Lithuanian antis = "duck".\n\nI'm not sure if I believe it or not, but it's a cute story :)
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nutrionally, there is no difference.  There are different breeds of chickens (just like there are different breeds of dogs) and they lay different color eggs based on natural pigments in the chicken's body.  There are even blue and green chicken eggs.\nMost commercial egg laying chickens are White Leghorn (laying white eggs) and the Rhode Island Red or the New Hampshire chickens (laying brown eggs).\nThey all taste the same, but the white ones are easier to color at Easter!
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Swamp ducks are also known as wood ducks. They get much of their food by foraging on the ground in woody swamps. It usually nests in tree cavities by a water source. \n\nYou can read more about wood ducks or swamp ducks by clicking on the link below!\n\nhttp://www.pfmt.org/wildlife/somethings/wood_duck.htm
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One is: 3 animals went to a movie. A duck, a frog, and a skunk. Which of them did not get in? \n\nThe skunk. The duck had a bill, the frog had a green back, but the skunk only had a (s))cent
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Swans and ducks belong to the same family (Anatidae) but different subfamilies. \n\nSwans belong to the subfamily Anserinae. Some of their characteristics are: \n- Long neck\n- The plumage lacks metallic colors or a speculum (patch of conspicuous coloring in the wings)\n- No sexual dimorphism (males similar to females); also the calls of both sexes are similar\n- A single annual molt (after breeding)\n- Monogamous, they form life-long or long-lasting couples, and both male and female care for the chicks,\n- This is not so easy to see, but the pattern of scales on their legs is reticulate\n\nSubfamily Anatinae (typical ducks):\n- Most species with a speculum on the wing, with metallic colors\n- Most with sexual dimorphism: usually the males are more "gaudy" and their voices may be different\n- The males have sexual parades different from the females, and in many species the plumage of the male during the breeding season is very noticeable, but they have an -\ninconspicuous non-breeding plumage (which means that they undergo 2 yearly molts)\n-The males usually do not participate in incubation or care for the chicks,\n- Different pattern of leg scales\n\nAnd in case you were wondering, the geese are also Anserinae. \nNot all ducks are Anatinae. The whistling ducks belong in their own subfamily, the Dendrocygnini, and their characteristics are somewhat more similar to the swans than to the "typical ducks".
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The geese rotate who is at front in the formation. The lead bird is going to tire the fastest so they all share that position.  Geese do not necessarily have one lead bird that they all follow. Each indivdual goose knows they way to their hibernation area so when it is their turn to lead they do not need any other goose to tell them how to get there.
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because domestic ducks/geese come from three species the muscovy duck, the mallard and the greylag goose. These were domesticated to make all the forms you see today. Canada Geese can hybridize freely with Greylag geese because they are (quite) closely related. These offspring can also reproduce Mallards often mate with farmyard ducks because farmyard ducks are often just funny coloured mallards so no problems there. Muscovy ducks and mallards frequently interbreed making an infertile hybrid or mule duck (which tastes good!). Pintail are able to hybridize with farmyard ducks as they are the same genera as Mallards (anas) but they dont unless they are in collections because they have a choice of mates in the wild. Wood Ducks are in a genera apart from mallards called Aix, which they share with mandarin ducks from china. Due to this they are less likely to mate with mallards but it is possible because most potential hybrids are possible although not always as fertile young. Other birds dont get involved because waterfowl like to keep it in the family :)
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Male geese.\nGeese typically mate for life (though thats not to say, they don't have multiple partners now and then). During breeding season, the male goose is very territorial of his females. This can especially be demonstrated with Canadian geese! Scary stuff. :)\n\nA male goose will charge at threats, with his wings spread out and his head lowered. After the attacker has been scared off...he'll return to his female and they'll do a little ritual where the male boasts about himself, and the female seems to congratulate him. Its thought that they reaffirm their bond to eachother through displays like this.\n\nA male goose also protects his young. Both mother and father help raise the goslings....while in ducks, the mother does all the work.
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In cricket, a duck denotes a batsman getting out for a score of zero and usually used in the saying "Out for a duck". Originally called a "duck's egg" because of the "0" shape in the scorebook. A batsman who is out for a duck twice in the same match is said to have got a pair (short for 'pair of spectacles,' shaped like two zeros).