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duck

Ducks can elude their enemies in many ways, either by flying, running, swimming or diving for cover; therefore, they are a symbol for a resourceful person. Ducks may be referred to by many names such as drake, mallard, teal, eider-duck, moorhen, and sheldrake. They all refer to the same symbol, though, except for the shoveller or sholarde, which is distinguished by a tuft on the back of its head and its breast. In addition to all of these, the gannet is a duck drawn without a beak or legs. Like the martlet, a footless swallow, the gannet is held to be a good bearing for one who is "prompt and ready in the dispatch of his business." The gannet may also represent one who has to "subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit,” being unable to rest on land.

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