Common Shelduck
Tadorna tadorna
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 25,432
- Most observed in
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The common shelduck is a waterfowl species of the shelduck genus Tadorna. It is widespread and common in the Palearctic, in Europe and northwest Africa mainly breeding on temperate coasts, saline pools and estuaries, and in Asia on inland salt lakes; increasingly it is also using open freshwater habitats inland. Wintering is in temperate to subtropical regions.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Common shelduck”.