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Uncommon card · Science
Diving duck, an Uncommon card
The diving ducks, commonly called pochards or scaups, are a category of duck which feed by diving beneath the surface of the water.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 26
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Diving duck quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Diving duck card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The diving ducks are placed in a ______ tribe in the subfamily Anatinae, the Aythyini.
Answer
distinct. The diving ducks are placed in a distinct tribe in the subfamily Anatinae, the Aythyini. From the Diving duck article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jayati Ghosh. Jayati Ghosh 58 · Robert Axelrod 54 · Diving duck 51 · Ammonium ferric citrate 48 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are part of Anatidae, the diverse and very large family that includes ducks, geese, and swans.
- The diving ducks are placed in a distinct tribe in the subfamily Anatinae, the Aythyini.
- While morphologically close to the dabbling ducks, there are nonetheless some pronounced differences such as in the structure of the trachea. mtDNA cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequence data indicate that the dabbling and diving ducks are fairly distant from each other, the outward similarities being due to convergent evolution.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Diving duck article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 26: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Diving duck
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Diving duck (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Calibas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
