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Now you say a bright pink head, but can you give us a bit of a better sense of what one of these birds looks like? It's quite a large duck. It's about the size of a mallard, chocolate-brown or ...
The pink-headed duck gave up its secrets under laser light. The bird’s rosy head feathers were colored by carotenoids, a type of naturally occurring pigment.
The exotic Pink-headed Duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea), whose rose-colored plumage set it apart from any other species of waterfowl, was last seen in the wild in India in 1949. Scientists never ...
To prove that a colorful duck is not extinct. This week, he launches a seventh expedition into the inaccessible wilds of Myanmar to search for the pink-headed duck that hasn’t been seen alive ...
Quest for the Pink-Headed Duck. The Untold. Elegant, feathery, and more than likely extinct: finding the long-lost pink-headed duck has been Richard's obsession for twenty years.