Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2013
Such is the case with the Pink-headed Duck , Rhodonessa caryophyllacea , a native of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. No, this is a bird that, in the male breeding plumage, shows off a robust pinkness of head that is all the more vivid in contrast with the bird’s dark body. Is it extinct? So not utterly hopeless, either.
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