Male duck making strange noise (from his bottom?)

[Kerya]

Hello all, I’m not sure the last time I’ve posted but I now have 7 ducks.
The 4 new members are over 4 months old, 3 boys and 1 girl.

My biggest of the babies is Eggnog, and recently he started lifting himself in the water (like bicycle kicks) and making a strange noise.
He mostly does this in the water, but when on land dips his butt as if it feels uncomfortable.
Outside of this, he’s 100% normal in his behaviour.

Not too long ago, another one of the boys named Scrump started doing this as well.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I’ll include a Twitter video of the noise, and pictures of the updated flock for cuteness.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1570098441321160705

 

[MeanCheek]

I think my drake does that. Kind of makes a sort of whistle and then flattens out and does a little zoom?

 

[DuneDucks]

Perfectly normal! All of my boys do this as a form of communication. They basically just puff themselves up and do a little whistle to feel big and bad. I've seen my drakes sit in each other's faces doing it to challenge each other until one backs off, and I've seen the drake that stays with my hens do it when he wants to mate.

 

[Kerya]

I think my drake does that. Kind of makes a sort of whistle and then flattens out and does a little zoom?

He does zoom after sometimes too! I’ve never had boys before, or heard that noise, so I wanted to make sure!

Sounds kind of like a fart and I don’t know if ducks do that lol

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Very normal
I have 5 drakes and all of them do this
It’s a drake noise

 

[Kerya]

Perfectly normal! All of my boys do this as a form of communication. They basically just puff themselves up and do a little whistle to feel big and bad. I've seen my drakes sit in each other's faces doing it to challenge each other until one backs off, and I've seen the drake that stays with my hens do it when he wants to mate.

Ohhhh okay!! I’m glad it’s normal, I’ve never had boys before so I’ve never heard this from them haha!
They must be getting all their boy ducky hormones and are starting to dominate the pool lol!

Biggest boy does it the most, but my smallest started doing it with him

 

[Kerya]

Very normal
I have 5 drakes and all of them do this
It’s a drake noise

Ahh, thank you!! I’ve never had boys before so it’s a new noise I didn’t see anyone talking about

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Ahh, thank you!! I’ve never had boys before so it’s a new noise I didn’t see anyone talking about

The boys are very funny
Sometimes mine will stand up tall and run in a circle when they see me all excited as well
They also puff the head and neck feathers up too
You have beautiful ducks

 

[Canadian Wind]

I've seen my drakes sit in each other's faces doing it

They Dutch Oven each other?!? O_O

 

[Kerya]

The boys are very funny
Sometimes mine will stand up tall and run in a circle when they see me all excited as well
They also puff the head and neck feathers up too
You have beautiful ducks

Wait is them puffing up excitement??!! I thought they were mad every time I entered a room lmao!! They’ll puff up and squawk, while the girl yells as loud as possible

They are quite funny, it’s been cool to learn the differences between them and my other girls! Also thank you! My first hand raised ducks from eggs