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
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
The diving ducks, commonly called pochards or scaups, are a category of duck which feed by diving beneath the surface of the water. They are part of Anatidae, the diverse and very large family that in
Madagascar pochard
…The Madagascar pochard or Madagascan pochard (Aythya innotata; Malagasy: Fotsy maso, Onjo) 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 Matsaborimena near Bemanevika in…
Female A. australis, the only Australian representative of Aythyinae