Baer's pochard females of Baer's pochard and the ferruginous duck are quite similar, but that holds true for the females of almost all "Aythya" species. Eclipse males resemble females, but retain the white eye. Formerly classified as a vulnerable species by the IUCN, recent research shows that its numbers are decreasing more and more rapidly. It was consequently uplisted to endangered status in 2008. In 2012, it was further uplisted to critically endangered. Between 1987 and 2007, there were only eleven reports of groups of 100+ birds in mainland China. A recent census by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) China of Hubei province
A Bird in a Guilty Cage to cross off birds from his diet, saying to himself that "That one sort of upset my stomach!". A Bird in a Guilty Cage A Bird in a Guilty Cage is a 1952 "Looney Tunes" animated short featuring Sylvester and Tweety. The title is a pun on the song "A Bird in a Gilded Cage". Sylvester is at a store called Stacy's, where he notices Tweety in the window stand. Going through the package slot, he closes the curtains and climbs up to Tweety's cage, who asks him what he's going to do. After asiding to the audience, "How naive