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Common Pochard

Aythya ferina (Linnaeus, C 1758)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.
Species name Recordist Date Location Remarks Cat.nr.
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Alan Dalton 2023-04-30 Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholms län, Stockholm (Sweden) (20 m) call, song -

Display, on breeding site, 2 males and 4 females

 797788
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Alan Dalton 2023-04-30 Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Stockholm (Sweden) (20 m) call, song -

Display on breeding territory, 2 males and 4 females

 797793
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Ireneusz Oleksik 2019-04-22 Tychy, Tychy, śląskie, Śląskie (Poland) (260 m) flight call -

City park with ponds, ZOOM H1.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 467962
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Maurizio Sighele (maudoc) 2025-04-20 Isola di Albarella, Rovigo (Italy) (0 m) call - [sono] 993069
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Tero Linjama 2012-04-24 Lac de Sidi Bourhaba, Kénitra (Morocco) (10 m) flight call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 164146
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Peter Boesman 2021-03-30 Zonhoven, Limburg, Vlaanderen, Limburg (Belgium) (40 m) flight call -

Female bird taking off from a pond.

 634400
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Jarek Matusiak 2020-05-01 Gmina Cyców , łęczyński, Lubelskie, Lubelskie (Poland) (170 m) adult, call, female, male, song -

Group of males displaying to the females

Rain starting

 609398
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Dominique Guillerme 2022-03-19 Arrondissement de Montbard (near Époisses), Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Côte-d'Or (France) (240 m) Nocturnal calls - [sono] 769838
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina jesus carrion 2020-06-18 Marjal dels Moros (Sagunt), Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia (Spain) (0 m) flight call -

Entorno de carrizo, lámina de agua somera y Tamarix.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 570725
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina David Darrell-Lambert 2018-04-12 Buckingham Palace, Greater London, England, Westminster (United Kingdom) (10 m) displaying - [sono] 994661
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Ivan V 2023-12-21 , Beograd (Serbia)   -   612547719
macaulaylibrary.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Alan Dalton 2023-04-30 Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Stockholm (Sweden) (20 m) call, song -

Courtship display on breeding grounds

 797798
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Alan Dalton 2023-04-30 Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Stockholm (Sweden) (20 m) call, song -

2 males and 4 females displaying on breeding grounds

 797792
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Bernard BOUSQUET 2023-03-04 Momas, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (France) (150 m) call, flight call -

Flight calls of a small group of birds circling above the lake

 783893
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina David Darrell-Lambert 2025-04-03 East Tilbury, Thurrock, England, Thurrock (United Kingdom) (10 m) displaying - [sono] 985362
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Albert Lastukhin 2016-05-17 Poretskiy rayon, Chuvashia, Chuvashia, Republic of (Russian Federation) (80 m) alarm call, flight call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 317087
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Fernand DEROUSSEN 2013-06-11 Mézières-en-Brenne, Indre, Centre, Indre (France) (90 m) parades mâles, song -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 138178
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Dominique Guillerme 2022-04-13 Arrondissement de Montbard (near Époisses), Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Côte-d'Or (France) (240 m) flight call - [sono] 769847
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina David Darrell-Lambert 2025-04-03 East Tilbury, Thurrock, England, Thurrock (United Kingdom) (10 m) displaying - [sono] 985363
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Jarek Matusiak 2012-04-28 Nadrybie Lake after landslides in the mine called Baltic, Lubelskie (Poland) (? m) call female (A) - call female and in the background male 102816
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Marco Dragonetti 2014-06-26 Comuna Maliuc, Județul Tulcea, Tulcea (Romania) (0 m) flight call -

Check www.birdsongs.it (my website). Two Pochards fly from a small lake in the Danube Delta

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 331077
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina David Darrell-Lambert 2017-04-20 City of Westminster (near London), Greater London, England, Westminster (United Kingdom) (0 m) displaying -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 398354
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Noé Ferrari 2025-04-25 Arrondissement d'Abbeville (near Abbeville), Somme, Hauts-de-France, Somme (France) (10 m) alarm call, flight call - [also] [sono] 991857
xeno-canto.org
Common Pochard - Aythya ferina Simon Elliott 1994-11-06 Northumberland, England, Northumberland (United Kingdom) (190 m) call, female, male -

female growl, male call (background wigeon dabbling)

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 591952
xeno-canto.org
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