English: Common Pochard
Russian: Красноголовая чернеть    
German: Tafelente
French: Fuligule milouin
Mongolian: Улаанхүзүүт шумбуур
Japanese:  ホシハジロ (Hoshi-hajiro)

Body Length: 42-49 cm
Wing span: 67-75 cm

Passage migrant /summer visitor
Breeding season: May-September

Egg number: 6-11 (occasionally 18)
Egg color: Pale greenish to greenish-grey, occasionally tinged wit buff.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status:  Least Concern

Habitat: Fresh water lakes, pools and slow-moving streams with thick waterside vegetation. On migration, it forms flocks of 20-2,000 individuals and forages in fresh water, brackish and saline lakes, and large deltas of rivers. The flock rests and roots on the shores of lakes, banks of rivers, and on the islands and sand bars of lakes.

Identification: Medium-sized, short-tailed (rear and sloping down on swimming bird), with long neck and long bill with concave culmen running without step into slopping forehead , giving fairly distinctive profile with smoothly peaked crown. In all plumages, wings have indistinct greyish wing-bars.

• Adult ♂ breeding: Head bright chestnut; bill blackish with pale grey band across outer part; eye reddish; breast black with gloss; flanks and back pale ash-grey, appearing whitish in strong light; stern black. In flight, medium grey upperwing-coverts and pale grey wing-bar give the bird a rather washed-out, pale appearance.
• Adult ♀: Along with ♀ Wigeon, most nondescript duck: grey-brown, flanks and tinged greyish, breast, crown and neck darker and tinged brownish. Diffuse pale and dark head marks, along with head/bill profile, often best clue: diffuse pale loral patch, eye-ring and line behind eye, and diffuse dark patch below eye which reaches lower base of bill; bill with a narrow, dull pale band across outer part (winter), or appearing all dark (summer). Eye rufous-brown.
• Adult ♂eclipse: Differs from breeding in having  breast  and stern dark brown-grey, and head duller rufous. Eye remains reddish.
• Juvenile: Similar to adult ♀; typically more uniform above, and lakes pale line behind eye. Eye yellowish-olive.

Food: Leaves, seeds and roots of water plants, and aquatic invertebrates.