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pochard

Any of various diving ducks found in Europe and North America, especially the genus Aythya. They feed largely on water plants. Their nest is made in long grass on the borders of lakes and pools.

In North America, the canvasback A. valisineria, the redhead A. americana, the ring-necked A. collaris, and two species of scaup, A. marila and A. affinis, are pochards.
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The reserve also recorded a tree pipit, green sandpiper, juvenile goosander, knot and five redcrested pochards.
BIRD NOTES by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
And the adjacent Llanishen Reservoir is also of great importance to birds as it forms a refuge for over wintering birds, including beautiful mallards, teals, pochards, coots, divers and grebes.
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By experimentally infecting wild ducks, we found that tufted ducks, Eurasian pochards, and mallards excreted significantly more virus than common teals, Eurasian wigeons, and gadwalls; yet only tufted ducks and, to a lesser degree, pochards became ill or died.
Wild ducks as long-distance vectors of highly pathogenic avian ... by Keawcharoen, Juthatip; van Riel, Debby; van Amerongen, Geert; Bestebroer, Theo; Beyer, Walter E.; va / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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