Common shelduck

Common shelduck
Adult male
Adult female with ducklings
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Tadorna
Species:
T. tadorna
Binomial name
Tadorna tadorna
Range of T. tadorna (Compiled by BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) 2019.)
  Breeding
  Resident
  Non-breeding
Synonyms

Anas tadorna Linnaeus, 1758

The common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) 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.

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