Originally posted by: Scruffy
The duck is in the Star Wars databank ( http://www.starwars.com/databank/creature/duck/ ). The same databank entry also says that it was mentioned by Captain Panaka in TPM. The duck is canon.

Yeah, I know the duck's on Databank, but I don't really care for canon or any of that retcon crap. In my mind it's a mistake by the script writers of TPM and Alan Dean Foster (although I don't blame Foster because he was writing in like 1975 or 1976 and had no idea really). Making the duck canon is a kinda cool in-joke, but nothing more. Believe what you want though - if you think there are ducks in the star wars galaxy, cool. There's a 50s diner, so why not a duck?