#Netta rufina

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Tiny and Fluffy by Regina Via Flickr: Another encounter of the cute kind last weekend at the park. This duckling is a young red crested pochard. There were five ducklings and they were tiny, probably only a few days old.

[dietariil-lustrat]

Xibec

[birdblues]

Red-crested Pochard

[wingedjewels]

Moody - Red-Crested Pochard by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: I thought this male Red-crested Pochard looked like he was in a bad mood or really deep in thought. This photograph was taken in the south of Spain. The Red-Crested Pochard is a large diving duck. They feed mainly by diving or dabbling. They eat aquatic plants, and typically upend for food more than most diving ducks.-wiki -Netta rufina

[guudlobster]

red-crested pochard family!!

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: NETTA RUFINA

NETTA RUFINA is a chesnut horse born in Ireland in 1995. By NIGHT SHIFT out of AGE OF ELEGANCE. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/netta+rufina

[herpsandbirds]

Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), male, eat a tasty vegetation, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, West Bengal, India

photograph by Rajesh Dhungana

[gemeente-kampen]

Krooneend, Red-Crested Pochard, (Netta rufina), Nederland, Overijssel

[bens-birds]

Female Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)

Galway City, Co. Galway - 01-07-2024

[blogbirdfeather]

Red-crested Pochard - Pato-de-bico-vermelho (Netta rufina): male

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (6/04/2023)

[Nikon D7100; ∑ 150/600mm C; 1/2000s; F7,1; 400 ISO]

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Duckling cuteness by Regina Via Flickr: Last weekend when I was at the neatby park I saw some ducklings but at the time only had my macro lens with me. So I returned to the park yesterday morning and luckily found them again near the place where I had first met them. This time I was equipped with my long telezoom lens, the ducklings were quite cooperative too and I could take a series of photos. Maybe I will post a few more occasionally. These ducklings are young red-crested pochards (Netta rufina), a species I don't see very often here, which made the encounter even more exciting.

[desiderosaurus]

Mäkelborger in Bayern

Œwer, wat makt ein Mäkelborger in Bayern? Worum utgeräkent in München un nich etwa Hamborg oder Berlin? Nu ja, de Uni in München hett just wat tau beiden, wat Hamborch leider fehlt. Man dor ward ik jichtenswenn nåst œwer snacken.

Ik studier in München Biologie un ik heff mi dacht, dat ik hier wat œwer dei Biologie herum vertell. Nu is Winter, liekerst kann ein wat interessantes finnen. Vör Wihnachten was ik mit Kommilitonen von mi up twei Exkursionen: einmal in'n Wold un dat zweite Mal an'n Starnberger See (etwa so grot wo de Schweriner See).

In’n Wold hebben wi Poggenstäuhle funnen. Leider kann ein de meisten nich wirklich äten un sei sünd tämlich sliemig. Openbår is dat typisch, dat Poggenstäuhle in’n Winter eihr sliemig sünd. Dat is ein Wold, meist ein Urwold mit väl Dotholt. Un woar väl Dotholt is, doar sünd ok die Poggenstäuhle. Doar geef’t de Samtfauträuwling (Flammulina), de all lecker is, blot möt hei kåkt warden. Œwer ok gor kleine wieren dor, wo de Konidien-Swartbekker (Holwaya mucida). Hei is würklich einfach ein klein swart Poogenstauhl, de in’n Muss wasst. Leider weit ik nich mihr, wat dor för Poggenstäuhle noch geef, wiel ik nich so de Poggenstäuhl-Typ bün.

Man œwer de anner Exkursion kann ik all mihr wat snacken. Dor wieren väl Watervœgel, mihrst Ånten un Blässhäuhner (Fulica atra). Unner de Ånten was de Mihrheit Reiger- (Aythya fuligula) und Rotkoppånten (Aythya ferina), tau Œwerraschung blot wenige Grau Ånten (Anas platyrhynchos). Dat Best wieren ein klein Grupp von Dickkoppånten (Netta rufina) un ein Brillduker-Por (Bucephala clangula). De Lesten sünd Wintergäst in Bayern (in Mäkelborg bräuden sei, wo ik in de Winterferien einen mit mien Swester öcht). Nich tau vergäten wieren de väl Meerråben (Phalacrocorax carbo), de slicht rumstünnen. Dor was sogor ein Bom, de von de ganzen Meerråbenschiet witt was. Båbenin wieren dor ok anner Vœgel: Middlandsch Kobben (de Nuurdlich Kobb ehr Verwandte) un Dukervœgel. Ik sech taun iersten Mal bewüßt Füerduker (Podiceps cristatus) in’n Winterkleed un sechten wi ok kleiner Dukers, ein Swarthalsduker- (Podiceps grisegena) oder Rothalsduker-Por (Podiceps nigricollis). 

In’n Winter kann ein väl Reiger- un Rotkoppånten finnen. An’n Nymphenburger Slott sünd ok väl. Båbentau ok mihr Grau Ånten. Cool finn ik ok de Såchdukers (Mergus merganser), de doch grötter sünd, as ik mi dat dacht heff, dorher villicht ok de hochdüütsch Nåm. Graugäus (Anser anser) geff’t nich, wieldat sei in’n Winter nå Süd fleigen. Dorför sünd dor Grot Kanadagäus (Branta canadensis) un Grönlandgäus (Branta leucopsis).

Noch ein Exkursion was vörherige Wäk, nochmal tau’n Stanrberger See, œwer ditmal an eine anner Städ un hoffentlich seihn wi dor Prachtdukers (Gavia arctica) un dornå geiht’t fort mit anner Waterdierte (ik möt mien Gummistäwels nich vergäten). Dornå geiht et tau de Amper.

[birdblues]

Red-crested Pochard

[der-reisende-lammergeier]

Water birds families I saw today

Mute swan (Cygnus olor)

Mallard (Anas platyrhyncos)

Coot (Fulica atra)

Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina)

[hello-birdies]

Netta rufina by Kap'n'Kaos~Too

[birdstudies]

March 17, 2019 - Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)

Breeding from western Europe east to northwestern China and western Mongolia, these ducks winter around the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas to India and southwest China. They eat the roots, seeds, and leaves of aquatic plants, as well as some aquatic invertebrates and small vertebrates. Forming pairs in the fall and winter, they travel to their breeding sites in the spring, building their nests under plants on land or on floating vegetation, from roots, twigs, and leaves. Females incubate the eggs and care for the ducklings.