Saving China's endangered duck with the funny hair

A quirky waterfowl that lives in trees gets a helping hand from humans, but it's far from out of the woods

I am an endangered Chinese duck - the one with the crazy hair. Like giant pandas, I need human help. Pandas are cute, but I'm cute, too. And I'm fit, not fat. Is it fair that nobody ever mentions how pandas taste? Or that I'm an athlete who flies thousands of kilometers twice a year? I don't mean to complain, but why are pandas getting all the attention?

Along the meandering rivers of China's far northeastern Jilin province, a quirky, tree-dwelling migratory duck, the Chinese merganser, is teetering on the brink of extinction. If they could understand, they wouldn't be happy about it.