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
I managed on the way, however, to shoot two bar-headed geese, a couple of Garganey teal and a pochard, which proved a very welcome addition to our bill of fare.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
By the first of November brahminy duck, gadwall, common teal, widgeon, shovellers and the various species of pochard abound.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
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
What a multitude of wild ducks there are in Scotland and every other country, mallards, pintails, gadwalls, widgeons, pochards and teals, all very much alike in their habits and tastes!
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Aitken, Edward Hamilton
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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