Unlike Mallards, the male breeding plumage of some duck species, such as the Chinese Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha, is already inconspicuous, and such a moult is not called “eclipse”. Moulting ...

An Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha) with pale plumage was sighted at Manickapuram tank in Tiruppur district recently. Birders who observed the duck said the individual got the pale ...

According to Chennai forest officer V A Saravanan, a wide range of birds, including pied myna, purple heron, lesser and fulvous whistling ducks, Indian spot-billed duck, purple and common moorhens ...