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Madagascar pochard

Birds
The Madagascar pochard or Madagascan pochard is an extremely rare diving duck of the genus Aythya. Thought to be extinct in the late 1990s, specimens of the species were rediscovered at Lake Matsaborimena near Bemanevika in Madagascar in 2006. Wikipedia
Conservation status: Critically Endangered (Population stable)
Scientific name: Aythya innotata
Class: Aves
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata