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Duck!
The Wood Duck pictured above is well know for it's ability to duck under wood or wooden deadfalls located in the many lakes and rivers of the Canadian Wilderness - thus the Common name "Wood Duck" eventually became associated with this beautiful bird...........
..........a short tongue twister based on this ducks wonderful skills also became quite popular at one time........"How much wood could a wood duck, duck, if a wood duck could duck wood.........and so on..........
The word duck comes from Old English *duce "diver", a derivative of the verb *ducan "to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen "to dive".
Duck!
The Wood Duck pictured above is well know for it's ability to duck under wood or wooden deadfalls located in the many lakes and rivers of the Canadian Wilderness - thus the Common name "Wood Duck" eventually became associated with this beautiful bird...........
..........a short tongue twister based on this ducks wonderful skills also became quite popular at one time........"How much wood could a wood duck, duck, if a wood duck could duck wood.........and so on..........
The word duck comes from Old English *duce "diver", a derivative of the verb *ducan "to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen "to dive".