pochard

American  

[poh-cherd, -kerd] / ˈpoʊ tʃərd, -kərd /

noun

plural

pochards,

plural

pochard

1. an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.

2. any of various related ducks, as the American redhead.

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pochard British  

/ ˈpəʊtʃəd /

noun

1. any of various diving ducks of the genera Aythya and Netta, esp A. ferina of Europe, the male of which has a grey-and-black body and a reddish head

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Etymology

Origin of pochard

First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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

There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

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