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Encyclopedia > Rosybill
Rosybill Pochard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Netta
Species: peposaca
Binomial name
Netta peposaca
(Vieillot, 1816)

The Rosybill or Rosybill Pochard (Netta peposaca) is a duck with a distinctive red bill on males and a slate-colored bill on females. Though classified as a diving duck, this pochard feeds more like a dabbling duck.


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Rosy Billed Pochard (355 words)
Sometimes referred to simply as Rosybills, this peaceful duck is native to South America from southern Brazil south into Argentina and Chile.
Commonly kept in aviaries, rosybills belong to the waterfowl tribe, known as the diving ducks.
Rosybills will do well in a small aviary that is well planted.
Argentina bird hunting: Blind Ambition (1245 words)
The "rosybill" is a robust duck in a fl costume with purple-gloss, with finely barred silver flanks and a bright pink beak that features a flaming red fleshy caruncle that matches its also flaming red eyes.
The rosybill, as a pochard, is genetically related to the canvasback so much so that the hens in both species look very much alike.
"Rosybills" are strong, super fast and exciting ducks, and you'll see them in small groups as well as in large flocks.
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