The Tufted Duck
Sep 22, 2021
2 minutes
BY JOHN MCEWEN
ILLUSTRATED BY CARRY AKROYD
The jaunty topknot on the head of the drake tufted (Aythya fuligula) – allied to the species’s jack-in-the-box water antics – makes them the jokers in the duck pack.
Those with only a passing interest in birds, such as
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