shelduck
IPA: ʃˈɛɫdʌk
noun
- Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
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Examples of "shelduck" in Sentences
- They are usually placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.
- The shelduck has been observed in flocks of two to eight birds.
- It has been suggested that this shelduck may be a nocturnal feeder.
- The video also showed them shooting a paradise shelduck with a rifle.
- The Common Shelduck resembles a small short necked goose in size and shape.
- In Tibet and Mongolia, Ruddy Shelduck is considered sacred by the Buddhists.
- The video also showed the tourists shooting a paradise shelduck with a rifle.
- These include ringed plover, little ringed plover, shelduck and oystercatchers.
- The critically endangered crested shelduck Tadorna cristata, once occurred along the Korean Coast.
- The Raja Shelduck is listed as a protected bird in all states of Australia and penalties exist for harming or disturbing them.
- Yedikır qualifies as an IBA for the large number of ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) that roost there in the non-breeding season.
- Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson said she was "absolutely outraged" by the clip, which also showed the tourists shooting a paradise shelduck.
- A subspecies of the critically endangered crested shelduck, called Kuroda's sheldrake Tadorna cristata kuroda, once occurred along the southern coast of Korea.
- River bed invertebrates support a diverse birdlife including wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata, black-billed gull, black-fronted tern Sterna albistriata and banded dotterel Pluvialis obscura.
- Three Palaearctic species, golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) breed in the Bale Mountains, their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone.
- Freshwater wetlands in the South-West support sizable populations of several wetland birds, including grey duck, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata and shoveler Anas rhynchotis, two species of shag Phalacrocorax spp. and marsh and spotless crake.
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