Rosy-billed pochard winter, reaching Brazil and southern Bolivia. It is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands. Rosy-billed pochard The rosy-billed pochard, alternatively named 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. The species name "peposaca" is derived from a Guaraní word for "showy wings", referring to the broad white stripe that is only visible with stretched out wings. The rosy-billed pochard is endemic to South America. It is found in Argentina, central Chile, Paraguay,
What Bird is That? to the League for £300. The book was extolled fulsomely by S.R. Thomas, of the NSW Department of Education, as follows; ""What Bird is That?" is the most comprehensive and informative bird book published in the Commonwealth – if not in the world. The coloured plates are a triumph not only of the genius and imagination of the artist – our own Neville Cayley on whom has fallen so fittingly the mantle of his famous father – but also of the block-maker’s and printer’s art. The publishers have done nothing finer of its kind. The life-like portrayals of our feathered