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The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae endemic to New Zealand. It is the only member of the genus Hymenolaimus, placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae after previously being considered part of the paraphyletic " perching duck" assemblage. The Māori name, sometimes used in English, is whio (pronounced "fee-oh"), which is an onomatopoetic rendition of the males' call.
The blue duck is depicted on the reverse side of the New Zealand $10 banknote.
Blue Duck, sometimes referred to as Bluford Duck, (1858? - 1895) was an outlaw of the Old West, probably best known for a photograph taken of him around the mid-1880s, in which he posed with Belle Starr, a famous Old West female outlaw.
The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) is a species of duck, endemic to New Zealand.
Blue Duck may also refer to:
- Blue Duck (outlaw) (1858?–1895), an outlaw of the American Old West
- Blue Duck (Lonesome Dove series), a fictional character
- Blue Duck River, a river in New Zealand
- Blue Duck (missile), anti-submarine warfare missile, entered service as the Ikara
- The Blue Duck Inn, a historic hotel in Australia
Usage examples of "blue duck".
He wandered through the town, and considered buying a meal at the Blue Duck tavern.
If I told you two dears what the man who keeps The Blue Duck told Alan and me about the skulduggery that goes on in respectable little old Brighton, you wouldn't sleep sound in your beds.
The nearest he came to mentioning the subject was after supper, when the baby was asleep and Bud trying to cut a small pair of overalls from a large piece of blue duck that Cash had brought.
Time and again he had gone out to race when, to use William's own words, it was a blue duck for Bill's chance of keeping afloat.
The jacket exactly matched his pale blue duck trousers and these, in turn, blended beautifully with his blue sneakers.