How Ducks Digest Food: From Bill to Cloaca

At our house, breakfast often includes what I call duck soup, a bowl of water with chopped greens and a few peas. If you watch Krümel or Muffin at the bowl, you can see the bill doing two jobs at…

At our house, breakfast often includes what I call duck soup, a bowl of water with chopped greens and a few peas. If you watch Krümel or Muffin at the bowl, you can see the bill doing two jobs at…

The duck bill is one of the most recognizable and important features of a duck’s anatomy. From filtering food out of water to sensing their environment and communicating with other ducks, the bill plays a central role in daily survival…