Some ducks do not dive for food. Their beaks are broad and short. They are called dabbling ducks or dabblers. They eat plants, seeds, grasses and other small insects and animals that they find on or under the water. Usually they up-ends and stretch their heads into the water to reach their food.
Dabblers usually have shiny colored patches on their wings.
The domestic ducks are dabblers too. They are descendents of the Mallards. Dabbling ducks take off from the water in quick jumps. Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals , shovellers, green and blue-winged teals , pintails , black ducks, baldpates and gadwalls. For ducks with long necks, they dive their head down into the shallow water and pick up their food.