Little ducks jumping around the duck pond

A family of little ducks is jumping in and out of the water. The duck babies are tufted ducks. Ducks are aquatic waterbirds that live on freshwater and seawater; ducks don't have the predatory instinct to hunt, but they will eat small water and land animals, plants, and insects. Food eaten without chewing is how ducks and all birds eat their food because they have no teeth for crushing, and dining on big or small portions by swallowing in gulps is how they feed. A female duck is known as a pen, and a male duck is known as a drake; the duckling is a tiny baby duck with no avian flight feathers but with fluffy plumage, and a young or adolescent duck is much bigger and more confident as a food forager with their avian flight feathers almost grown, and spending less time close to the mother duck.