please help!! what is this? will my duck be ok??

That is a dryer vent.

As far as the duck. Pay close attention to her, and her feces, weighing her daily on a gram scale would be advised as well. If she starts producing abnormal droppings, or starts losing weight she needs to be taken to a vet.
I would say any thing like that isn’t good for a duck.
Depends a LOT on how much she ate, and the individual size and shape of the pieces ingested. If anything does happens, it will most likely occur in the gizzard as the strong grinding force often pushes the pieces into the lining. Of course take her to a vet if you can, but for now you'll just want to pay close attention to her. If you want, you could try adding a few ml's of mineral oil into her feed to help lubricate the plastic down.
No one can tell you she's going to be fine, as I just suggested earlier it depends on several factors. If you want a straight answer from me that she's going to be fine, you're not going to get it because I'm not going to be the source of false hope. Just pay attention to her.

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Listen to these people.
 
This sounds very stressful and I'm sorry you are going through this. Of course we can't tell you if your duck is going to be ok or not, but I wish that we could.

Did you actually see your duck ingest pieces of this plastic dryer vent? Perhaps your duck just chewed it and didn't swallow? Or maybe another animal chewed it and she was just investigating it with her bill?

I hope things turn out ok.
 
i didn’t mean for it to eat plastic, and i am very worried. please don’t be so mean about it. is she for sure going to die? we can’t take her to the vet tonight...
Can you call your vet in the morning and explain what happened?
 
i didn’t mean for it to eat plastic, and i am very worried. please don’t be so mean about it. is she for sure going to die? we can’t take her to the vet tonight...
Nobody on the internet can tell you what's definitely going to happen or not happen to your duck...but very experienced members have given you their best advice (to keep an eye on her and wait it out until/unless you can get professional in-person help from a vet)
 
This sounds very stressful and I'm sorry you are going through this. Of course we can't tell you if your duck is going to be ok or not, but I wish that we could.

Did you actually see your duck ingest pieces of this plastic dryer vent? Perhaps your duck just chewed it and didn't swallow? Or maybe another animal chewed it and she was just investigating it with her bill?

I hope things turn out ok.
i saw her chewing it, but not sure if she actually swallowed anything
 
If this helps any my duck ate a long string that somehow got into there run. The end of it was hanging out of his mouth and we tried to pull it and it would not come out. We couldn't take him to the vet so we just had to watch him and hope for the best. He was acting normal and started eating drinking and pooping again.
 

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