(The sense of runner here is ‘a twining plant’ ( NOAD2).) From Wikipedia: Other misnamed geese and ducks include the African goose, the black East Indian duck and the Muscovy duck. Like many other breeds of waterfowl imported into Europe and America, the term ‘Indian’ may well be fanciful, denoting a loading port or the transport by ‘India-men’ sailing ships of the East India Company. Attempts by British breeders at the beginning of the twentieth century to find examples in the subcontinent had very limited success. There is no evidence that they came originally from India itself. … The Indian Runner ducks are domesticated waterfowl that live in the archipelago of the East Indies. Duck-breeders need to house their birds overnight or be vigilant in picking up the eggs to prevent them from being taken by other animals.

They run or walk, often dropping their eggs wherever they happen to be. These ducks do not fly and only rarely form nests and incubate their own eggs. They were found on the Indonesian islands of Lombok, Java and Bali where they were ‘walked’ to market and sold as egg-layers or for meat. The females usually lay about 150 to 200 eggs a year or more, depending whether they are from exhibition or utility strains. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling, they run. Indian Runners are a breed of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, the domestic duck.

(#1) A family of Indian Runner ducks, showing their upright posture A variety of ducks that are noted for running, rather than waddling. To come, in a separate posting, on Indian runner ducks and Indian (or scarlet) runner beans, which are not at all the same thing.Īnd then to add to those, India(n) rubber ducks, which aren’t ducks, though they are duck-simulacra (runner ducks are ducks, and runner beans are beans - that is, bean plants). From Benita Bendon Campbell (and Ed Campbell) a Jacquie Lawson animated card of Indian runner ducks in the rain, ending with a duck and a rainbow.

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