Duck is one of the most beautiful birds that everybody love especially those who care about nature. There are many kinds of ducks all over the world.

In Iraq, we have few kinds of duck. People in some of the southern area have duck in their houses and when they have visitors, they made the best food and one of the main dishes would be duck meat. But did anyone hear about duck that eat people! I bet no one did. It happens only in Iraq.

In Iraq, we used to give local names especially animals names for many different things. For example, the German small car (the Volkswagen) we used to call this car (the turtle). Also we used to name one of the Russian cars (the camel). Now it’s the turn of the Japanese cars.

As everybody knows, Toyota Motors Company is one of the biggest Japanese motors company and they have great cars. In Iraq, we have few Toyota marks and one of them is (Crown), Iraqis gave the name (The Duck) to some of the nineties models of this kind of cars. Toyota Crown Sedan is not any more Toyota. Its now very well known as The Duck.

Now, some readers may ask about the relation between the ducks and eating people.

The duck and here I’m talking about the car is used by some insurgents to kidnap people. As some people said that the gunmen put the kidnapped people in the trunk of the duck. Some of these kidnapped people were found dead in one of the neighborhoods of Baghdad.

This is how those gunmen corrupted the pure reputation of this lovely bird in Iraq. Now when the Iraqis hears the word duck, they don’t think about that lovely bird with the beautiful colors, they think only about the views of the dead bodies and one color only, the red color.