# Unusual Duck

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360 "2006-04-19T20:55:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/21 "2006-04-20T15:18:39Z")

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Did it quack like a duck?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/22 "2006-04-20T15:21:44Z")

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> [@August West](#):
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> Perhaps it wasn’t a duck, but a Cormorant? They are black and can have a crested head, I believe.

The crest on a Double-crested Cormorant is not at all prominent, and in any case is shaped nothing like the one described. Also, as has been said, cormorants can barely walk on land, and you would virtually never see one walking across a road.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/23 "2006-04-20T15:31:35Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> Did it quack like a duck?

It may have been an African Swallow.

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**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/24 "2006-04-20T15:41:23Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> It may have been an African Swallow.

Did it weight the same as a duck?

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**Author:** ![ZeroZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f04885/32.png) [@ZeroZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroZero)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/25 "2006-04-20T16:41:52Z")

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You can’t really go by the color because once I saw a jet black piegon. And every once in awhile you run across a werid colored robin around here too.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/26 "2006-04-20T18:55:01Z")

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> [@ZeroZero](#):
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> You can’t really go by the color because once I saw a jet black piegon. And every once in awhile you run across a werid colored robin around here too.

You’re lucky. Whenever I run across a robin, it becomes a pile of blood, mush, and feathers.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-duck/353360/27 "2006-04-20T20:06:17Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> You’re lucky. Whenever I run across a robin, it becomes a pile of blood, mush, and feathers.

This thread is not intended to be a discussion of personal hygiene.

🙂

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