pochard
Americannoun
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an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
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any of various related ducks, as the American redhead.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pochard
First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain
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Scientists are studying the Madagascar pochard population to work out why they're so rare.
From Children's BBC ● Apr. 6, 2012
Back too are the famed swans, as well as less common birds such as the pochard, a type of duck, and the dunlin, a sandpiper.
From Time Magazine Archive
We shot a pochard on Tuesday and a plover yesterday.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
In the pochard, the bill is of a bluish colour; that of the canvas-back is dark green; moreover, the eye of the pochard is yellow, while that of its congener is fiery red.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
They are the pochard, or, as we call them here, pokers.
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles
These Madagascar pochards are the results of a breeding programme that's hoping to save the rare birds from extinction.
From Children's BBC ● Apr. 6, 2012
When all was ready the pochards were frightened off the water.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
All sorts, lad: widgeons, teal, mallards, and some pochards.
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville
I became differently occupied, and with a matter that soon drove canvas-backs, and widgeons, and pochards as clean out of my head as if no such creatures had ever existed.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
These were the pochards, or, as they are termed by the gunners of the Chesapeake, ‘red-heads.’
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
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