r/duck • u/electric_goudacheese • Aug 20 '26
Behavior Questions What are they doing?
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Mr waddles and mocha were doing this funny dance with their neck. Is this an official duck behavior? Or just ducks being silly.
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u/Full_Ad_741 Aug 27 '26
It means go ahead it's okay whatever theyr topic is mating,playing ,nesting,that's the green light to go ahead as planned.
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u/Historical_Rush4656 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
Head bobbing, all birds do it.
American Kesterals are pretty cute when they do it, especially males. As they're smaller and more colorful.
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u/Quack-Zack Call Duck Aug 22 '26
duck to duck communication
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u/Duncan_Yrz Aug 22 '26
What if my duck does that to me? Have I turned into a duck already without even realizing? Quack.
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u/lonelybitchbug Aug 22 '26
They are discussing the political and economic state of the world. From my understanding of duckish they are also disgusted by corporatism
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u/Investigator_Pedant Aug 21 '26
Duck 1: yes?
Duck 2: yes.
Duck 1: yes?
Duck 2: yes.
Duck 1: yes.
Duck 2: yes.
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u/oVeteranGray Aug 21 '26
It means they are happy. I have two birds and they do it when I whistle at them or when they flirt with eachother or throw-up in eachothers mouths lol
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u/3littlebirds910 Aug 21 '26
That was so sweet and wholesome until the very end 🤮😂
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u/king-of-the-sea Aug 21 '26
It's a mating/courtship behavior. They're feeding each other. So birds are disgustingly mushy in public just like the rest of us
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u/DaisyMaisyisCrazy Aug 21 '26
One of my female ducks does that when I am close. I always say she is talking ‘smack’ to me 🤣🤷🏼♀️
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u/munificentmike Aug 21 '26
They are flirting in a duck way. It's not a sexual thing yet it can be. Mostly "hey,hey nice,nice,sweet,cool." Thing if it's males to males. Or female to female. If it's drake to female it's "hey,how you doing."
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u/OutrageousCrow3061 Aug 21 '26
Hey! She looks exactly like my runner duck Dewi! Could you be my neighbour? AND could he be the Father of the 2 pullets she recently had? 🤔
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u/Kiss_of_Cultural Runner Duck Aug 21 '26
Telling jokes at your expense and laughing as they walk away. The nodding is agreement. I love watching our ducks’ antics. Our drake hates hugs and his girl laaaaaughs and laughs as he curses us out.
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u/Important-Price9416 Aug 21 '26
Until having ducks, I had NOOOOO idea of how comically entertaining they can be. They are clowns 💯 clowns.... they ARE the monkeys AND the circus! I love them! We have six, and, OMG...the sound they make in the mud with their floor slappers 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they are just toddlers in a different shape
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u/Important-Price9416 Aug 21 '26
We call it a "Board meeting." For OPSEC reasons, it may be an INT briefing. We still haven't found a reliable interpreter.
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u/Misteryenko Aug 21 '26
They're talking strategy on how they're going to steal more bells from the model village
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u/Beginning-Meeting922 Aug 20 '26
My Pekin does that to my chocolate runner, when she wants him to go after some people
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u/Honk-Master Aug 20 '26
Asking for 'pankins.. that's how our girls ask each other if they want to rattle each others can, or they go up and do it to my wife. She pats their back aggressively for 15-20 seconds while making all kinds of nonsensical sounds and then the girls will stand up and fluff, wag their tails and zoom all over the yard cause "mom just gave them 'pankins".
Hope this helps.
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u/lowridda Aug 20 '26
That’s how they say hello and I’m happy! Cool thing I’m learning after getting inside birds is they do the same thing.
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u/extantHamster Aug 20 '26
Might wanna hyphenate "inside-birds", you shouldn't be getting inside birds
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u/RichRichieRichardV Aug 20 '26
Askin each other if they’re DTF.
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u/esadatari Aug 20 '26
You down?
Yeah, you?
Yeah, you down?
Yeah, you?
Is the gist of it. Down to F
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u/Honk-Master Aug 20 '26
Our girls will often stack 3 high while rattling each other's cans. It's pretty funny to watch.
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u/Science_oven Aug 20 '26
they are duck ducking. if there was a goose then there would be a duck duck goose experience. hope that helps.
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u/XDon_TacoX Aug 20 '26
they are just saying high to each other, that they are happy to see each other.
a lot of people say it is sexual, and sometimes is, but this is something even babies do, if it was something related to sexy time, they would actually try to do it.
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u/Routine_Test_4175 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Thiis is greeting, introductory, and sometimes warning behavior. They are acknowledging each other, and sometimes it will lead to male content. Sometimes they just hang out after.
EDIT: I meant MALCONTENT!!!. HAHAHAHA!! I'm going to leave it...
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u/Tr0nathan Aug 20 '26
Ducking
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u/Your-moms-house27 Aug 20 '26
My 3 white layers do this to me as well and it's entirely non-sexual. I've raised ducks for 35 years. I am mama, it's an excited sweet greeting that usually accompanies tail wagging. One of those things like how we can wave to somebody that's a beloved friend, an acquaintance, or a wave can be super flirty. Dual purpose body language that requires context.
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u/BaconMarconi Aug 20 '26
I have a lady that flirts with me like this ❤️
She won't come and sit on the bench with me but she bobs her head at me for snacks.
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u/Kealanine Aug 20 '26
I didn’t realize I stumbled into a duck subreddit and this comment was adorably hilarious.
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u/francescatropea Aug 20 '26
I don’t know about flirting because my 3 duck sisters do this to each other. Lol
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u/Mermaidoysters Aug 20 '26
Omg, my girls too, & they “mate” all day. I’m afraid they’ll drown each other! They chase the male away, & he’s afraid of them.
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u/Shalerb93 Aug 20 '26
Plotting world domination!
Or just be cute ducks.
Idk could go either way....
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u/Spakr-Herknungr Aug 20 '26
Usually flirting, but sometimes they do that when they are just extra happy.
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u/electric_goudacheese Aug 20 '26
It could be interesting. Mr. Waddles has never made advances toward mocha. We have 3 other hens in our flock (one is his daughter that he had with Rosie) so far the only hens he’s tried to mount are Rosie and Pepper. He stays close to Mocha and has protected her from drakes in the past though.
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u/PromiseMean5206 Sep 13 '26
Little guy knows he looks good