Talk:Duck decoy (structure)

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Requested move 30 October 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline (talk) 13:29, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Duck decoy (structure) → Decoy pond – "Decoy pond" seems to the common name for this type of structure. See, for instance, this monument entry from Historic England. The term also appears in quite a few Wikipedia articles. Kelly ^hi! 13:54, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: It's not clear to me that all of the places the phrase "decoy pond" appears on Wikipedia are referring to this type of structure. And it is clearly a structure that's described in the article, whereas "decoy pond" implies that the pond itself is the decoy without there necessarily being any sort of additional structure with wooden screens, hoops, netting etc. which are after all what this article describes. Without any additional information I would take the phrase "decoy pond" as meaning a pond specifically dug and filled to lure waterfowl where no waterway had previously existed. The article describes a kind of structure built around existing ponds, used as a decoy to capture ducks. The current name seems to describe that structure best. —GrammarFascist _contribs ^talk 14:43, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - the source I gave above describes how the decoy pond is a structure created around a natural or artificial pond. Kelly ^hi! 23:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Trained ducks as decoys?[edit]

I was just reading Thomas Allen's The History of the County of Lincolnshire (1834) and, on page 60, it describes a completely different method of usage than either of the ones described in the article:

The decoys are formed by pools, surrounded by wood, branching off from which are small canals, called pipes, these at the time of catching the fowls are covered by nets, resting on hoops, and terminate by a drawing-net. Into these pipes the wild fowls are enticed by means of decoy ducks, which are bred in the pools, and trained for the purpose; they are taught to obey the whistle of the decoy-man, who tempts them to swim up the trapping funnel, when he perceives they have drawn together a number of wild fowls, these follow the tame birds, and when they have all entered the funnel, a dog, which until then has been kept close, rushes into the water, and swims after the ducks; the affrighted birds swim forward to the further end, where, being enclosed in the drawing-net, they are taken out by the decoy-man. The decoy-ducks wait behind on the first alarm, and are soon ready again for the same service.

Kelly ^hi! 09:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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