Baer's pochard
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Baer's pochard is a diving duck found in eastern Asia. It is a resident bird in North and Central China, and formerly bred in southeast Russia and Northeast China, migrating in winter to southern Chin
Aythya baeri cropped
Aythya baeri female
Breeding pair in Wuhan, Hubei, China
Breeding male
Madagascar pochard
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The Madagascar pochard or Madagascan pochard is an extremely rare diving duck of the genus Aythya. Thought to be extinct in the late 1990s, specimens of the species were rediscovered at Lake Matsabori
Baer's pochard
…on morphological data in 1996, in which he proposed his view on the relationship among Tribe Aythyini. Baer's pochard, ferruginous duck, hardhead and Madagascar pochard are classified in subgenus Nyroca (the "white-eyes"), intrasubgenus relationship is unclear, but the ferruginous duck was suggested to be the sister…
Madagascar Pochard, Captive Breeding Program, Madagascar 2
Madagascar Pochard, Captive Breeding Program, Madagascar 1
The Madagascar pochard in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Volume 27, 1895.
The 1960 specimen now held by the Naturalis Biodiversity Center