Name: Shelduck, Common
Scientific name: Tadorna tadorna
Type: Birds
Color: White,Green,Brown
Habitat: Water,Ocean,Coast
Size: 63cm
Conservation status:
Winter Visitor
Description:
A large, mainly white, goose-like duck. Black head and green gloss, broad chestnut belt around forepart of body and black belly-stripe with a prominent red bill. In flight, shows black flight feathers contrasting strongly with white upper and underwing coverts and black shoulders. Flight is goose like with slow wing beats.
