Aythya ferina
Size: 42–49cm (17–19in)

Medium-sized diving duck with short-necked ‘dumpy’
appearance on water, and long broad bill.

Male has dark
chestnut head and neck contrasting with pale grey back and
flanks, black breast and tail.

Female uniform dull brown,
slightly paler around face. Both sexes characterised in flight
by absence of white on wings; forewing dark grey.

Juvenile
resembles female.

Male readily distinguished; female resembles female Tufted
Duck and Scaup (protected except in Northern Ireland).

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