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Donald’s family is composed of three branches. The McDuck Clan, Coot kin and the Duck family.
Coots are smaller birds that often get mistaken for ducks and while Coot can be used as a last name like how Duck or Mouse are common last names in the duckverse (like Johnson or Smith etc) I doubt that Barks and Rosa went out of their way to give them a last name without it having some biological meaning as well.
Donald’s dad, Quackmore Duck, is the son of Elvira Coot and Humperdink Duck. Now, unfortunately we don’t know much about Humperdink’s parents but we’re given enough tools at our disposal to figure enough out.
Donald’s mother is Hortense McDuck, a fiery duck from Scotland. As far as I can tell, duck is all she has.
So that’s it right?? Donald is part duck part coot??
NOPE
THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE
DONALD’S PART GOOSE AS WELL
The guy who looks high at the bottom left corner of the picture there?? That’s Gus Goose. He’s a semi-distant cousin of Donald’s related to him from his father.
Now it’s implied from the family tree that the goose part for Gus came from Luke Goose which is fine and dandy and it could very well have been from him. But again, it doesn’t have to be the only source of goose in his family. (and it already isn’t considering Gladstone Gander canonically being half goose half duck)
Humperdink’s parents are unknown right?? Who’s to say he isn’t part goose as well? Maybe he got it from his dad or mom who knows they’re not in the tree. And if he’s part goose part duck, then Quackmore is goose-duck-coot mixed.
Going by all of this, we can say that Donald Duck is 2/4ths Duck, ¼th Coot and ¼th Goose.
I remembered his goose family so instantly, it took me a second to remember the Coots for some reason though lol, I love Donald Duck lore
So Bros a bird mutt?
Kind of yeah, although some people headcanon the boys are demigods and I think the only duck people ship Donald with is Daisy so he may be the most duck member of his bloodline soon which would be really funny
What do you mean demigods
No one knows who the boys father is but in Ducktales 2017 we find out that Della was close with a goddess named Selene prior to their birth and her disappearance, so there’s a fan theory that Selene is the other parent which would make them demigods, would also be really funny if she dated the goddess of the moon and then a moon warrior (Della and Penny were on a date in a Valentine’s Day short it’s canon to me)
