Easter Born Ducklings in Madagascar

NNN--- Africa signal hope for world’s rarest bird. The Madagascar pochard – arguably the world’s rarest bird – has bred successfully in captivity building hope that it can be saved from extinction. The pochard was believed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 2006 on a single small lake, Lake Matsaborimena (or Red Lake), in northern Madagascar. Two years ago an emergency expedition was held to take the eggs into captivity. It is the ducks from those eggs that have now bred for the first time. --- courtesy of Holy Meadows