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Common pochard
Aythya ferina
50.8173, 4.64371
Field Notes
Description:
Is a medium sized, diving duck. The adult male has a long dark bill with a grey band, a red head and neck, a black breast, red eyes and a grey back. The adult female has a brown head and body and a narrower grey bill-band. The triangular head shape is distinctive.
Habitat:
Their breeding habitat is marshes and lakes with a metre or more water depth. Pochards breed in much of temperate and northern Europe into Asia. They are migratory, and winter in the southern and west of Europe.
Notes:
We see them wintering in lakes, ponds and rivers here in Belgium. Always wary of humans and difficult to approach.
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Common Pochard
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedFebruary 6, 2012
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