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Aythya nyroca
This is not a ferruginous duck, but common pochard. The body color is wrong for ferruginous, (which is all chestnut); and the eye color too is wrong - here is red (typical for pochard); while it is white for male ferruginous, or dark brown for female.
Spotted on Jan 28, 2013
Submitted on Feb 15, 2013
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