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Red-crested
Pochard |
Rhodonessa
rufina |
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Species (monotypic); i.e. no subspecies/races
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The
Red-crested Pochard arrives rather late in the season, probably not
much before the end of November, but is then common enough on all
large jhils, generally in parties of a dozen or so, though sometimes
in vast flock. One morning in December I came across countless numbers
on a jhil in the Fyzabad district, closely packed, and covering nearly
the whole surface of the water, with their red heads moving independently,
while the breeze kept their crests in motion; a distant spectator
might have mistaken them for a vast expanse of beautiful aquatic flowers.
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