Talk:Hardhead

File:Female Hardhead duck.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Female Hardhead duck.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on September 20, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-09-20. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 09:04, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A female Hardhead (Aythya australis), the only true diving duck found in Australia, swimming amongst duckweed. Hardheads are relatively small ducks, usually not much more than 45 cm (18 in) long. Both male and female are a fairly uniform dark brown above, with rufous flanks and white undersides.Photo: Fir0002

Pothead?

Is this just vandalism? The term "pothead" shows up twice.

Oh, someone fixed it before I could post.

Ed8r (talk) 17:23, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Name?

Where does the name come from? --Sreifa (talk) 09:48, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Aythya australis female - Hurstville Golf Course.jpg scheduled for POTD

Hello! This is to let editors know that the featured picture File:Aythya australis female - Hurstville Golf Course.jpg, which is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for March 3, 2021. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2021-03-03. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. (Answering Sreifa's question above a decade late!) If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:09, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

The hardhead (Aythya australis) is a species of diving duck found in Australia. Also known as the white-eyed duck, its plumage is chocolate brown in both sexes, but only males have the distinctive white eye. The common name "hardhead" has nothing to do with the density of the bird's skull, instead referring to the difficulty encountered by early taxidermists in processing the head. These female (top) and male (bottom) hardheads were photographed at Hurstville Golf Course in Mortdale, New South Wales.

Photograph credit: John Harrison

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