This Index Quacks

Then he waddled away, waddle waddle, 'til the very next day.

This is an index for tropes about birds in the waterfowl family (including ducks, geese, and swans).

Sub-index of Avian Tropes. Despite the names, Wild Goose Chase; Duck Season, Rabbit Season; Peking Duck Christmas; Like a Duck Takes to Water; Swan Song, and Shapeshifter Swan Song do not belong here.

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Tropes

• Aquatic Hadrosaurs: The inaccurate and outdated depiction of hadrosaurs A.K.A "duck-billed dinosaurs" as aquatic animals, often portraying them as the prehistoric equivalent to ducks.
• Duck!: Use of two senses of "duck" for humor value.
• Foul Waterfowl: Ducks, geese, and/or swans are portrayed as unpleasant.
• Noisy Duck: A duck is loud and annoying.
• Penguins Are Ducks: Penguins given attributes of ducks due to confusion between the two.
• Puzzling Platypus: The nature of the duck-billed platypus's characteristics (seeming like a combination of a duck and beaver) is depicted as confusing or nonsensical.
• Quacking Up: Humorous or lighthearted depictions of ducks.
• Semiaquatic Species Sailor: Semi-aquatic anthropomorphic animals such as ducks are portrayed sailors/pirates/captains.
• Swan Boats: Riding swans, having swan-shaped boats or boats pulled by swan represent love, romance, leisure or art.
• Swans A-Swimming: Swans in fiction are elegant, gentle creatures.

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'Til the very next day. (Bum bum bum bum ba-bada-dum)
When the duck walked up to the lemonade stand
And he said to the man running the stand,
"Hey! (Bum bum bum) Got any grapes?"

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