Duck who isn't as smart as he thinks. Cute duckling. Wild duck that evades hunters successfully and puts them in their place.

The duck who isn't as smart as he thinks. Examples: Daffy Duck, Plucky Duck, Bill and other duck characters from Sitting Ducks, Donald Duck, Darkwing Duck, Count Duckula, Howard the Duck, Duckman, the duck in Peter And The Wolf (although he is characterized more sympathetically in the Disney version.), Wannes Waggel in Tom Poes, Wade from Garfield & Friends, The Ducktators.

The cute duckling, Examples: Yakky Doodle, Lucky Ducky, Little Quacker, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Alfred Jodocus Kwak, The Ugly Duckling.
Ducks are especially popular in cartoons and comic strips, because the animals already have a funny way of walking in real life.
The wild duck that evades hunters successfully and puts them in their place: Example: Daffy Duck (only his pre-1950 shorts), Lucky Ducky, A Haunting We Will Go (1949 film).