Tufted Duck

Aythya fuligula

Order:

Family:

Anatidae

Size:

40-47 cm

Weight:

M 600-1020 g, F 560-930 g

Taxonomy:

Monotypic Anas Fuligula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Short Description:

A rather small diving duck with dark foreparts and back and paler flanks and either a nape-tuft or a peak at hindcrown. Breeding male is glossy black, with prominent crest and white flanks. Eclipse/immature males are duller, with greyish flanks. Female is dusky brown, with paler flanks, usually show tufted nape and squarer head shape.

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 mostly by diving; also upends, dips head or picks items from surface or ashore, where feeds on grain. Non-diving birds strain mussels from water flow generated in the bill (suction-feeding). Forages both by day and night. Feeds on seeds and green parts of aquatic plants, molluscs, crustaceans, crayfish and aquatic insects; also potatoes, other species’ faeces, and scraps.