Patagonian Welsh During the 1982 repatriation of Argentine troops from the Falklands war, British Merchant Navy seamen and Welsh Guardsmen met a Welsh-speaking Argentine soldier. The detained troops were disembarked at Puerto Madryn. In 2004 the Welsh speakers in Argentina asked permission from the Welsh government to access Welsh TV programmes to encourage the learning of the language and for the language to grow. Patagonian Welsh Patagonian Welsh () is the name given to the Welsh language as spoken in , the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, specifically in the province of Chubut. Teachers are sent to teach the language and to
Patagonian crested duck crested duck is not endangered. Although its global population is unknown, there are thought to be around 10,000 breeding pairs in the Falkland Islands. Its sibling subspecies, the Andean crested duck, is extremely rare even in captive collections. One of the main predators of the Patagonian crested duck is the black-crowned night heron. Adult ducks have few other predators though the younger ducklings are subject to predation by brown skuas. Patagonian crested duck The Patagonian crested duck ("Lophonetta specularioides specularioides"), also known as the southern crested duck, or the grey duck in the Falkland Islands, is the nominate of two