The male Ferruginous Duck has a rich chestnut head, neck, and breast, grey beak and striking white eyes, a dark collar around the base of the neck, upperparts are dark-brown, speculum is white, flanks are reddish-brown, a white belly and white under the tail coverts and legs and feet are grey.
The female is duller and browner with brown eyes, and like the male it has white undertail coverts.
The Male in eclipse plumage is similar to the female but has a redder head and breast. It also differs from the female in having striking white eyes.
Typical Adult is about 40cm (16in).
Mainly aquatic plants, seeds, and roots, also small fish, molluscs, crustaceans, and aquatic insects.
Lakes, marshes, and ponds in western Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, and Tibet. Winters further south in Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Middle East, India, Thailand, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Early-May to mid-June.
8 to 10, pale-buff colour.
River Cottage's collection of Pochards changes regularly. Please visit us regularly to keep up-to-date with our flock
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