Madagascan pochard lake. After hatching, the day-old chicks were taken to a holding facility in a local hotel. Reared in captivity, they hatched eighteen ducklings in April 2012 at the captive breeding centre in Antsohihy, bringing the total population to 60. In April 2013, the population reached 80. In Autumn 2017 the population reached 90, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust are now ready to begin the reintroduction process at a suitable lake in Madagascar, Lake Sofia. Madagascan pochard The Madagascan pochard or Madagascar pochard ("Aythya innotata"; ) is an extremely rare diving duck of the genus
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