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Two ducks were removed after inoculation: 1 tufted duck because of concurrent aspergillosis and 1 pochard because of concurrent staphylococcosis.

His victims so far have been a Ross's goose from America and a rare red-crested pochard duck.

The main birds at risk are species such as wigeon, teal, pochard, Shoveller Ducks and Brent Geese, as these migrate from northern Europe," he added.

A watch is being kept on sanderlings and dunlins who winter at Scotland's biggest nature reserve, Vane Farm, by Loch Leven, Perth The list of birds drawn up by the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) also includes widgeon, teal, mallard, pintail, shoveler, tufted duck, gadwell, pochard and lapwing.

A REDHEAD, the North American version of our pochard, has returned to Glamorgan, South Wales, for a second winter.

In the three-bedroom Pochard show apartment, the lounge has windows on two sides, a designer kitchen with integrated appliances and en suite master bedroom.

A total of 14 species were inventoried during the study period: White-headed Duck, Garganey Anas querquedula, Eurasian Teal Anas crecca, Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula, Ferruginous Duck, Mallard Anas platyrhyncos, Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata, Gadwall Anas strepera, Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope, Northern Pintail Anas acuta, and Common Pochard Aythya ferina (Anatidae); and Common Coot Fulica atra, Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus, and Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio (Rallidae).

The study speculates that duck-shooting could be partly responsible; Pochard is a quarry species in most countries, including the UK.

These include species such as the European Turtle-dove, which uses Cyprus as a stopover during migration, but also as a breeding ground, the Meadow Pipit, many of which can be seen in winter in Cyprus, the Black-legged Kittiwake, another accidental visitor to Cyprus, and the Common Pochard, also a visitor.

During this period, the Asan reserve becomes home to a variety of globally endangered species such as brahminy duck, pintail, red crested pochard, gadwall, common pochard, mallard, coot, wigeon, common teal, tufted duck and shoveller.

The chicks were from the Madagascar pochard, arguably the world's rarest bird.

Listen out for the residents such as Cetti's warblers and water rails and see overwintering wildfowl such as tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and goldeneye.