Ferruginous Pochard Latest News
Recently, a lone Ferruginous Pochard was found among a flock of Common Pochards at Amoor lake, Chennai.
About Ferruginous Pochard
- It is also known as ferruginous duck, common white-eye or white-eyed pochard (Aythya nyroca ) is a medium-sized diving duck from Eurosiberia.
- Habitat: It prefers quite shallow fresh water bodies with rich submerged and floating vegetation with dense stands of emergent vegetation on the margins.
- Distribution: It is mainly found in Europe, Asia, Africa especially China, Mongolia, Portugal, France, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia.
- The duck winters throughout the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea, smaller numbers migrate into sub-Saharan Africa via the Nile Valley.
- Diet: They eat aquatic plants with some molluscs, aquatic insects and small fish.
- Threats: It is threatened by the degradation and destruction of its habitats by anthropogenic causes which are very wide and varied including impoundment, drainage, pollution and mismanagement.
- Conservation Status
- IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
Source: TH
Last updated on June, 2026
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