Common Species Names - Ducks

Lay people and professionals use terms to describe in one word the status of an animal. The term may relate to the sexual status of an animal (intact or sexually functional, or altered or sexually nonfunctional) or the age status of an animal. Terms have also been derived to denote the process of giving birth and the grouping of animals.

anserine (ahn-sehr-ihn): ducks

drake: intact (not sexually altered) male duck

duck: intact female duck

duckling: young duck

flock: group of ducks