Penelope

A flock of Eurasian wigeon ducks happily grazing the rough on the golf course.
Wigeon enjoy a most pleasing scientific name. The Eurasian wigeon was originally named Anas penelope  by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Anas is the Latin word for "duck", while penelope refers to the duck that rescued Penelope the queen of Ithaca when  she was thrown into the sea in Homer's Odyssey. More recently the wigeon has been placed in the genus Mareca. So these days the wigeon is named Mareca penelope.