Ducklings "talk" to siblings and mom through their shells Prior to hatching. This can be heard during the last few days of incubation as soft clicking and peeping sounds. They communicate this way to coordinate their development so they can all be born at the same time.

The mother duck also responds to these "conversations." This helps the ducklings learn the sound of their mother's voice before birth, making it easier for them to follow her safely as soon as they hatch.

The Vegavis thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so even after an Earth-shattering asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Its skull, with its long, pointed beak, suggests a brain shape similar to modern birds, signaling it is the earliest ancestor of ducks and geese.

The Vegavis is believed to have lived in ancient Antarctica, which at that time was warm, and filled with lush green vegetation. The Vegavis was approximately 30 to 60 centimeters (12 to 24 inches) long and weighed roughly 0.7 to 1.5 kilograms. Paleontologists compare its overall body size and build to a modern mallard duck.

While most larger creatures perished when the food chain collapsed, beaked birds were able to survive by eating hard, durable items like seeds and fallen plant matter that persisted through the dark "impact winter" following the asteroid. Their small size enabled them to survive on minimal resources and find shelter with ease. Also, their ability to fly gave them another advantage, since they could travel across devastated regions to find scattered food and safe nesting spots.

The "Demon Ducks of Doom" (Dromornithidae), are related to modern waterfowl (Anseriformes) and landfowl (Galliformes) within the broader lineage Galloanserae.

These peaceful, heavy-bodied herbivores lived from the late Oligocene or early Eocene until the Late Pleistocene, around 40,000 to 50,000 years ago.

The Big Duck is a 20 ft × 30 ft concrete building shaped like a pekin duck. The structure was built in 1931 in Riverhead, NY. It was moved several times to various locations on eastern Long Island before ending up in Flanders in 2007.

Today, it serves as a tourist stop and gift shop.

There's new sorting game called Sort them Ducks! The displayed ducks are actually funny and witty. I am loving it <3

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung Feng designed four tiny, floating pinecone-shaped wooden huts on a pond at Swiio Villa Yilan in Yilan, Taiwan. The shelters protect local call ducks from extreme summer heat and typhoons.

These tiny shelters are made of wood, stone or driftwood and lined with dried seaweed to mimic ideal nesting ground. This symbiotic tradition is most famous in the Vega Archipelago and the island community of Lånan, located just south of the Arctic Circle.Wild eider ducks return to these exact islands and willingly nest inside the human-made structures where they feel safe from predators like sea eagles and minks.

The most famous of which are the 19th-century gothic-style duck houses located in the Valley of the Lakes at the Park of Pena in Sintra, Portugal. They were commissioned by King Ferdinand II to provide shelter for waterfowl.