white-eyed duck

noun

variants or less commonly white-eyed pochard

: either of two pochards having males with the irises of the eyes white:

a

: a widely distributed Old World duck (Aythya nyroca)

b

: an Australian duck (Aythya australis)

called also hardhead

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