Answer:
A reaction to being spooked that takes its name from waterfowl
What is that over the head and under the hat?
What points the way without a hand. It floats on water but exists on land?
Through its wounds, water does run. It once held many but now has none. What is it?
My first master has four legs, my second master has two. My first I serve in life, my second I serve in death. Tough I am, yet soft beside. Against ladies cheeks I often reside.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?