Loons are aquatic birds found in many parts of North America. They are members of the genus Gavia within the Gavidae family. These birds are the size of a big duck and resemble these birds in shape when swimming.
The American coot is in the family Rallidae which also includes gallinules and the highly secretive rails. They are more closely related to sandhill cranes than they are to ducks. It's true that these birds closely resemble ducks while on the water but when on land they walk more like a chicken than a waddling duck.
Mixed into large rafts of waterfowl on the water, you'll find some “duck-like” birds that aren't actually ducks at all. Coots, grebes, and loons each belong to different families.
Muscovy Ducks are large, heavy-bodied ducks with long necks that can make them look like small geese. They have a fairly long bill that slopes smoothly up to the forehead. The tail is fairly long. Males are larger than females; domesticated individuals are often larger than wild.
The Northern Pintail duck has been recorded flying 1864 miles non-stop. Not only are ducks fast, they are able to fly at very high altitudes. Mallards can reach 10,000 feet and typically fly at 4000-6000 feet while migrating. Ruddy Shelducks fly at an average altitude of 17,000 feet and hold the record of 22,000 feet.
The male Muscovy Duck is the largest duck in North America, but the female is only half his size. After laying 8–15 eggs, she does all of the nest defense and raises the ducklings (which have sharp claws and hooked bills to climb out of the nest).
The World's Largest Rubber Duck, sometimes called Mama Duck, is a 60-foot-tall, 15.5-ton inflatable duck. The rubber duck, better known as the #Kindness Duck, is part of a larger Kindness Duck Project.
Pelican: The bird with the impressive throat pouch - CGTN.
Great Egrets are tall, long-legged wading birds with long, S-curved necks and long, dagger-like bills. In flight, the long neck is tucked in and the legs extend far beyond the tip of the short tail.
The bird with the longest neck is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), native to the open savannahs and semi-desert areas of Africa. The neck of adult ostriches averages 0.9 metres (3 feet) long, from the base of the neck to the top of the head.
The platypus is a remarkable mammal found only in Australia.
Sometimes known as a duck-billed platypus, this curious mammal combines the characteristics of many different species in one. The platypus is a duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature native to Australia.
The Magpie is a long-bodied bird, with a broad head and a long orange or yellow bill that may turn green in older ducks. They have orange legs and feet that may be mottled. Their body carriage is 15-30 degrees above horizontal when relaxed, and slightly higher when agitated. Standard varieties include Blacks and Blues.
Breeding male
Males have glossy green head, white ring on neck, brown chest, and yellow bill.
Small sea duck with short bill. Extravagantly marked with slate blue body, white facial crescent and spot, chestnut crown patch and flanks, and bold white body stripes.
With a duck-ish head, a body shaped like a chicken, and a pointy beak to match, the American Coot looks like the most impractical mash-up of birds—and that's just in the water. On land, you can see another part of its wacky appearance: those feet.
Australia's stork, the black-necked stork, used to be known as a jabiru, until it was realised this name is more correctly applied to a SouthAmerican species. It towers above most other waterbirds in wetlands, and is most commonly seen in the northern half of the continent.
The White-necked Heron, sometimes know as the Pacific Heron, is the most common Heron found thoughout Australia. It has a white head and a long white neck with a double line of black spots running down the front, the bill is black and the facial skin is commonly blue or yellow.
Water birds include: ducks, geese and swans (Order Anseriformes); grebes (Order Podicipediformes); pelicans, darters and many cormorants (Order Pelecaniformes); herons, ibises, spoonbills and storks (Order Ciconiiformes); cranes, rails, moorhens and coots (Order Gruiformes); and several waders (Order Charadriiformes).
In the breeding season, male magnificent frigatebirds have a bright red throat pouch that they puff out to attract a mate. Females have white throats and bellies.
Jabiru mycteria is the only member of the genus Jabiru. A nickname for Jabiru mycteria is “Garzon Soldier”. Its unusual name comes from a word in a Tupi-Guaraní language, meaning “swollen neck”.
Shoebills can grow up to 55 inches (around 4 ½ feet) tall and use their huge bills to hunt for snacks such as lungfish, snakes, and even baby crocodiles.
The size of the rubber duck varies. Hofman's largest rubber duck, in Saint-Nazaire, France, measured, width, length, height of 26 by 20 by 32 metres (85 ft × 66 ft × 105 ft).
thebigduck.us. World's Largest Rubber Duck is in Chicago, IL.
The Big Duck is a ferrocement building in the shape of a duck located in Flanders, New York, on Long Island.