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
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
Ferruginous duck
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The ferruginous duck, also known as the ferruginous pochard, common white-eye or white-eyed pochard, is a medium-sized diving duck native to the Palearctic. The scientific name is derived from the Anc
Madagascar pochard
…feed on the surface. The Madagascar pochard was largely overlooked by scientists in the 19th century, as those that saw it assumed they were seeing ferruginous ducks instead. Even after its description in 1894 little notice was taken of the species, and even numbers are hard to gauge from early accounts of the…
Aythya nyroca at Martin Mere 1
Ferruginous Pochard female RWD
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Ferruginous ducks