Domestic duck
A duck kept on a yard pond — a wild traveller turned into a contented stayer.
A domestic duck in a dream is the dream's image of a creature built to travel that has settled, contentedly, into a small body of water. The duck still has wings; it just no longer uses them for distance. The dream brings the domestic duck when a part of you — or a person in your life — that once moved widely has narrowed itself to a familiar pond and stopped minding. A duck happy on the home pond is the dream affirming that the smaller life is being lived without resentment. A duck staring at the sky when wild geese cross overhead is the dream noting that the capacity for distance has not, after all, gone away, and the pond is suddenly feeling its size.