Several rare bird species, including a breed of red-headed duck listed as “vulnerable”, are under threat from lead ammunition poisoning linked to shooting, a new report says. Numbers of common pochard, a duck species at risk of global extinction, have fallen substantially over the past 30 years, a decline partly attributed to the fact that […]
Tag: Common Pochard
More than a quarter of UK birds face extinction risk
More than a quarter of UK birds, including the puffin, nightingale and curlew, require urgent conservation efforts to ensure their survival, according to a new report on the state of the UK’s birds. Since the last review in 2009, an additional 15 species of bird have been placed on the “red list”, a category that […]
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Our newly arrived Red-Rumped Swallows start the task of nest building, feeding as the go. Black-eared Wheatears have been arriving with the lovely male photographed on the 15th. With a backdrop of the Grazalema mountain range Greater Flamingoes create a pink hue across the landscape as they move into feed at Venta La Palma on […]
Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina
Although a fairly common bird in western Asia and Europe, the Red-crested Pochard is a very rare but annual visitor to Japan in winter. This female was discovered at a dam in Nagasaki, along with lots of Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Mandarin Duck, Eurasian Teal and Common Coot. There is also a single Baer’s Pochard […]