WWT Washington Wetland Centre's aviculture warden Owen Joiner flew to Africa last month on an emergency mission to save the pochard, which is the world's rarest duck.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In Tikrit, the mallard, the common pochard, the Egyptian vulture.    From Wordnik.com.  [swoonrocket] Reference

Don't know who Glyn is but if he found the MIA pochard, I tip my hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Given all these problems, it is not surprising that the pochard declined to apparent extinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

The search for the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata: survey of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar October-November, 1989.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Lake Alaotra, in particular, is an important wetland possessing the endemic Alaotra little grebe and Madagascar pochard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madagascar subhumid forests] Reference

Other notable species include South American pochard Netta erythrophthalma and golden-plumed conure Leptosittaca branickii (VU).    From Wordnik.com.  [Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru] Reference

There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

Far less appreciated is that the Red-crested pochard is also odd, however, with more recognised autapomorphies than the Pink-headed duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Given that the Pink-headed duck is – like the Madagascar pochard – a pochard, it bears discussing where it fits within this duck group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Found virtually worldwide, the 17 pochard species are diving ducks with high wing loadings and several specialisations for subaqueous locomotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

So back to the latest news from the world of pochards: the amazing rediscovery of the Madagascar pochard, also known as the Madagascar white-eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

As an extinct species, the Madagascar pochard would join a long and sorry list of recently extinct wildfowl, many of which were endemic to small islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

In the wetlands, both the Alaotra little grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus) and the Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata), are considered critically endangered and may be extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madagascar subhumid forests] Reference

There were pochard and pintail and one like a mallard.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology: The Madagascar pochard returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata), by hatching eight ducklings in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to New Chameleon Species Discovered In East Africa] Reference

In colour, however, it so nearly resembles the ` pochard, 'or ` red-head' of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference

It was a brutal bit of birding, but I found red-crested pochard, so that was all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

M. in the boat got within range of some confiding pochard, and we on shore got a few by flukes.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

But bar-tailed godwit, ringed plover, pochard, and Greenland white-fronted goose are in decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDP24 News]

The widgeon, Mr. Waterton tells us, is a much more familiar bird than either the pochard or the teal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference

Madagascar pochard ducklings raised in captivity since Wildfowl and Wetland Trust took emergency action.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Pandas 'chirp' to get pregnant] Reference

The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Of course, the red-crested pochard, a native of Europe and Asia, was new, and it was fun to see so many European wigeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Lynchburg News Advance] Reference

By the first of November brahminy duck, gadwall, common teal, widgeon, shovellers and the various species of pochard abound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

The celebrated canvas-back duck, allied to the English pochard, makes its appearance among the numerous rivers in the neighbourhood of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

At that time four new species - the slender-billed gull, common snipe, white-tailed lapwing and the ferruginous pochard - were recorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

The Madagascar pochard ducklings were hatched last week as part of an international conservation mission involving the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

The sad ‘loss’ of the Madagascar pochard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

1902, about a hundred and fifty wild duck, thirty or forty widgeon, a few teal, a pochard, and a great number of water-hens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

The Madagascar pochard returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

A landing common pochard dpr://galleries/6471739358/photos/268636.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]