Diving Duck

Ring-necked Duck Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Wildlife, birds. Common pochard is a diving duck species. They live in lakes and other closed waters, they are also seen in the seas. It feeds on leaves, stems and roots of aquatic plants.

7 Types of Diving Ducks

Mottled Duck Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Duck dives under water in a lake at Saint Naum Macedonia

Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) is large diving duck. Its breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and Central Asia, wintering in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa.