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Comprehension 1

Read the story.

PUDDLE DUCKS

Puddle ducks are typically birds of fresh, shallow marshes and rivers rather than of
large lakes and bays. They are good divers but feed by dabbling or tipping rather
than submerging. The coloured wing patch is generally bright and often a telltale field
mark. Any duck feeding in croplands will likely be a puddle duck, for most of this group

are sure-footed and can walk and run well on land. Their diet is mostly vegetable and
grain-fed mallards, pintails or acorn-fattened wood ducks are highly regarded as food.
Wood Duck: Found in all flyways; most numerous in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways
and fewest in the Central. They are early migrants; most of them have left the northern
state by mid-November. Frequents wooded streams and ponds; perches in trees. Flies

through thick timber with speed and ease and often feeds on acorns, berries and
grapes on the forest floors. Flight is swift and direct; flocks are usually small in the air,
their wings make a rustling, swishing sound.

Snow Geese: Two races of snow geese are recognised; Greater Snow Geese along
the Atlantic Coast and Lesser Snow Geese elsewhere on the continent. Blue geese are
a colour variant of the Lesser Snow Geese.

A. Answer the following questions.

1. What are the puddle ducks?

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2. What do the puddle ducks like to eat?

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3. Where we can find the wood duck?

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4. Are the wood ducks early migrants?

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5. What do you know about snow geese?

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