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WetlandPlatform nestLarge · 685 g
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The pochard is a medium-sized duck between 42 and 56 centimeters in size. Juvenile ducks have brown irises and are a pale, dull brown or chestnut colour with a darker stomach. The adults are darker in colour, though during a male duck's first winter, its iris will turn white. Breeding males have dark chestnut heads, chins, throats, breasts, and necks, with blackish brown on the top side of the body. Their wings are dark brown with a white bar. The area under the bodies from the stomach to the tail fades to white, as do the undersides of the wings.
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When to see the Madagascar Pochard
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Madagascar Pochard
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Madagascar Pochard
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 Matsaborimena near Bemanevika in Madagascar in 2006. By 2017, a captive breeding program had produced a population of around 90 individuals. The birds were reintroduced to the wild in December 2018.
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Easily confused with
Baer's PochardAythya baeriThe Baer's pochard is 41–47 cm (16–19 in) long with a 70–79 cm (28–31 in) wingspan.
New Zealand ScaupAythya novaeseelandiaeThe New Zealand scaup is a small, round-bodied diving duck that have dark plumage, but both sexes are easily distinguished.
Ferruginous DuckAythya nyrocaThe breeding male is a rich, dark chestnut on the head, breast and flanks with contrasting pure white undertail coverts.
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