JungleDragon is a nature and wildlife community for photographers, travellers and anyone who loves nature. We're genuine, free, ad-free and beautiful.

Join

The Common Pochard, ''Aythya ferina'', is a medium-sized diving duck. Their breeding habitat is marshes and lakes with a metre or more water depth. Pochards breed in much of temperate and northern Europe into Asia. They are migratory, and winter in the southern and west of Europe.

Similar species: Ducks, Geese, Etc.
Species identified by Ant Marriott
View Ant Marriott's profile

By Ant Marriott

All rights reserved
Uploaded May 5, 2015. Captured Apr 19, 2013 22:40 in Fish Lane, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire L40, UK.
  • Canon EOS 50D
  • f/6.3
  • 1/790s
  • ISO320
  • 439mm