Profile
In flight
Waterfowl
Baer's Pochard
Aythya baeri
- mythic
- 85 km/h
- Critically Endangered
A diving duck on the edge of vanishing, with a green-glossed head only catchable in certain light. Each sighting on a Chinese marsh is logged like a heartbeat.
- Population
- very small, estimated 150 to 700 mature individuals
- Habitat
- shallow freshwater lakes, marshes, slow rivers with dense reed cover
- Diet
- aquatic plants, seeds, mollusks, aquatic insects, small fish
- Size
- 0.46 m
- Wingspan
- 0.7 m
