Canard

Canard is French for duck, an aquatic bird

Canard may refer to:

Places

  • Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada, a group of hamlets and villages
  • River Canard, hamlet in the north part of Amherstburg, Ontario and the southern part of Lasalle, Ontario, Canada
  • Rivière-aux-Canards (River of the ducks), a river in New France (now Canada)

Persons

  • Nicolas-François Canard (c. 1750–1833), French mathematician and economist

In aviation:

  • Canard (aeronautics), a small wing mounted on the front of some aircraft
  • Aviafiber Canard 2FL, a one-person recreational aircraft of highly unusual design
  • Blériot V canard, an early French aircraft built by Louis Blériot in 1907, and was one of the first monoplanes
  • Canard Rotor/Wing (also known as CRW), class of VTOL aircraft capable of both fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight
  • Fabre Hydravion or Canard, a French experimental floatplane which first flew in 1910

Media

  • Canard PC, a French magazine devoted to computer gaming
  • Le Canard enchaîné, satirical weekly newspaper in France
  • Hoax, a false story
See also
  • Antisemitic canard, a false story inciting antisemitism
  • Canard-Duchêne, champagne house founded in 1868
  • Canard Pars, fictional character from the Japanese science fiction manga series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
  • Cul de canard, the feathers from the back of the of a duck directly around the preen gland
  • Voisin Canard, aircraft developed by Voisin brothers
  • Canardo (disambiguation)