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Name Show Studio Notes Abigail "Abby" Mallard Chicken Little: Walt Disney Pictures: Chicken Little's best friend. Ahiru: Princess Tutu: Hal Film Maker: A friendly, kind-hearted duck who was turned into a pre-teen girl by Drosselmeyer by a magical pendant. Like a duck, she is easily excitable, clumsy, and talkative.
Dooby Duck, the presenter of Dooby Duck's Disco Bus; Edd the Duck, puppet mallard from CBBC's The Broom Cupboard; Ferdinand, [7] adventurous white male duck who appears in Babe and Babe: Pig in the City; Harry the Duck, Bear's long-lost friend from Bear in the Big Blue House. Howard the Duck, from the 1986 film of the same name based on the ...
He introduced the current binomial name Mergus merganser. [2] The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and merganser is derived from mergus and anser, Latin for "goose". [3] In 1843 John James Audubon used the name "Buff-breasted Merganser" in addition to "goosander" in his book ...
The common merganser (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted merganser (M. serrator) have broad ranges in the northern hemisphere. The Brazilian merganser ( M. octosetaceus ) is a South American duck, and one of the six most threatened waterfowl in the world, with possibly fewer than 250 birds in the wild.
The red-breasted merganser was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Mergus serrator. [2] [3] The genus name Mergus is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified water bird.
The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of fish-eating duck in the subfamily Anatinae. It is the only extant species in the genus Lophodytes. The genus name derives from the Greek language: lophos meaning 'crest', and dutes meaning 'diver'. The bird is striking in appearance; both sexes have crests that they can raise or lower ...
Duck's name is a play on "007" (a.k.a. "James Bond") while Mata Harrier's one is an obvious play on "Mata Hari". They appeared for the first time in the story "The Case of the Purloined Pearls", [50] where they fought against agents of the evil organization "BLONK". Then the agents of this organization became the traditional rivals of 0.0.
Scrooge McDuck (voiced by Alan Young in the 1987 series, DuckTales the Movie, and DuckTales: Remastered; David Tennant in the 2017 series) is the richest duck in the world, a distinguished citizen of Duckburg, Calisota, the uncle of Donald Duck and Della Duck, the grand-uncle of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck, and the main protagonist of the original series and the 2017 reboot series, originally ...