A duck pond is a pond for ducks and other water birds. Queen Elizabeth Park is a municipal park located in Vancouver, British Columbia A pond is a body of water smaller than a Lake, both being examples of Terrain features Although the term pond is universally used to describe waterbodies that For duck as a food see Duck (food; for other meanings see Duck (disambiguation. Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Often such ponds are artificial and ornamental in nature, in public parks for example. A park is a protected area of Land and Water, usually in its natural or semi-natural (landscaped state and set aside for some purpose often to do with human Sometimes they may be less ornamental, in a farmyard for example.
Some duck ponds are purposefully built for the shooting of duck. These flight ponds are constructed by hunters and wildfowlers to attract ducks, such as mallard, teal and widgeon at dawn and at dusk. The ponds have shallow edges to allow ducks to reach food on the bottom. Barley is often used to attract or hold the ducks. This form of shooting can be great sport even though sessions do not last very long. A hide is used to conceal the shooter.
Typically, such ponds are round in shape. An example is the lily pond in the University Parks at Oxford in England, constructed in 1925. The Oxford University Parks, more normally the University Parks, or just Uni Parks to members of the local community is one large parkland area slightly northeast Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
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