Profile
In flight
Ghosts of the Past
Pink-headed Duck
Rhodonessa caryophyllacea
- celestial
- 90 km/h
- Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
A duck the color of a rose, last seen in a swamp in 1949 and never reliably seen again. Every report since has turned to mist.
- Population
- no confirmed records since 1949; almost certainly extinct
- Habitat
- secluded, densely overgrown lowland pools, oxbow lakes, and swampy elephant-grass jungle of the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins
- Diet
- aquatic plants, seeds, mollusks, aquatic invertebrates
- Size
- 0.42 m
- Wingspan
- 0.7 m
