{"id":31151,"date":"2013-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:37:14","slug":"red-crested-pochard-netta-rufina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-crested-pochard-netta-rufina\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This female was discovered at a dam in Nagasaki, along with lots of Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Mandarin Duck, Eurasian Teal and Common Coot.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a single Baer&rsquo;s Pochard at the same dam, but I was unable to get a decent photograph of it on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>I will visit the dam again in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 590px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Red-crested Pochard (female)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s Pochard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-crested-pochard-female-6803.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1377,2449,1385,1384],"class_list":["post-31151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-common-pochard","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-netta-rufina","tag-red-crested-pochard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}