Fuligule pochard

The fuligule pochard ( Aythya ferina ) is a plunger Canard of the family of the Anatidé S.

Identification

It is a Canard from 42 to 49 cm length with a scale from 70 to 80 cm, heavy between 700 and 1.100 G.

The male with the head and the neck brown-red, the black chest and the pale gray back. The female has a plumage moucheté of brown gray, with marks clear gray on the back.

Surface of distribution

It meets in all the Europe and part of the Asia. It is mainly a Migrateur, it spends the winter in north and is and spends the summer to Europe of the south and the west.

Habitat

The fuligule pochard attends interstitial waters in winter, in summer it seeks the basins equipped with a good vegetation. Water should not be very deep.

Behavior

It is a gregarious bird, which forms broad band in winter. He saw with others plunger ducks, in particular the fuligules tufted duck. He is far from apprehensive.

Food mode

It is nourished mainly while plunging but it can also be able to him to be nourished on the surface. He eats watery plants as well as small molluscs and watery, Têtard S, small insects Grenouille S.

Reproduction

The female lays one brooded per annum from 8 to 10 eggs in April - May. The nest is on the ground, close to water in a Roselière. It is made grass and sheets.

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