| NOUN | a common shelduck | common shelducks / common shelduck |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The common shelduck is common around the coastline of Great Britain and Ireland (where it is known simply as the shelduck), where it frequents salt marshes and estuaries.
- The genus name comes from the French name "Tadorne" for the common shelduck.
- This group is largely tropical or Southern Hemisphere in distribution, with only two species, the common shelduck and the ruddy shelduck breeding in northern temperate regions, though the crested shelduck (presumed extinct) was also a northern species.
- Species to be seen include pintail, red knot and common redshank with wintering waterfowl including common shelduck, red-breasted mergansers, Eurasian oystercatchers, ringed plover, dunlin and Eurasian curlew.
- Much of the management work carried out in the nature reserve is aimed at encouraging ducks to breed, and small numbers of tufted duck ("Aythya fuligula"), common pochard ("Aythya ferina"), common shelduck ("Tadorna tadorna") and gadwall raise broods most years.
- The island has a significant breeding colony of over 4,000 pairs of lesser black-backed gulls ("Larus fuscus"), 400 pairs of herring gulls ("Larus argentatus"), 2 pairs of great black-backed gulls ("Larus marinus") and varying numbers of common shelduck ("Tadorna tadorna") and Eurasian oystercatchers ("Haematopus ostralegus").
- Other recurring birds include common shelduck, velvet scoter, tufted duck and red-backed shrike.
- "Balcanas pliocaenica", a waterfowl described from fragmentary remains, may be a distinct and extinct lineage, the first record of the still-living common shelduck ("Tadorna tadorna"), or from a more ancestral shelduck.
- Three bird species occur in internationally important numbers: common shelduck, pied avocet and black-tailed godwit.
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