Common Pochard

Aythya ferina

Order:

Family:

Anatidae

Size:

42-49 cm

Weight:

M 585-1240 g, F 467-1090 g

Taxonomy:

Monotypic Anas ferina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Short Description:

A medium-sized diving duck with a long grey dished bill, sloping forehead and peaked crown. Male has chestnut head, black breast, and grey upperparts and flanks. Female has brownish head and breast contrasting with paler brownish-grey upperparts and flanks; lacks white undertail-coverts; eye is dark, and bill has grey central band.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast

Feeds by diving, upending or dabbling on surface, and also filters mud on shore, but some differences in techniques between males and females, with males apparently deeper divers. Eats seeds, roots and green parts of grasses, sedges and aquatic plants; also small invertebrates (aquatic insects and their larvae, molluscs, crustaceans, worms), amphibians and small fish.