RE: mounting ducks
I agree that it's a matter of preference what position you'd like. Personally I just take pictures and keep a journal. I've found mounts of all kinds to be dust collectors and a royal pain. Remember it will be you that has to care for them odds are the wife or girlfriend won't. Even big game I just do pics and a european style skull.
Must easier to sit back and thumb thru a book to relieve those memories. I'll save the feathers for fly tying not hanging on the wall.