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Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) (26499348215)🦆

Photo: Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Common Shelduck

Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus, 1758)

Suna (Tadorna tadorna), ördekgiller (Anatidae) familyasından 58–71 cm boyunda, 110–133 cm kanat açıklığında ait bir ördek türü. Yaşam alanları, sulak alanlardır. Beyaz ağırlıklı gövdesi sayesinde kolayca tanınan iri bir ördektir. Başı koyu yeşil, göğüs kuşağı kızıl, gagası ve bacakları pembedir.

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≈ 1/54th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.15 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Shelduck

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.15 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male1.26 kgWikidataQ25761
  • Female1.04 kgWikidataQ25761

Figures vary

  • 1.15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.31 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Coastal
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Shelduck yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusTadorna
  7. ›speciesTadorna tadorna
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  4. familyAnatidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
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Closest relative on this site
🦆 Common Pochard — last shared an ancestor ≈ 7.9 million years ago.
In other languages
翘鼻麻鸭 (zh), Ohar (pl), tarro blanco (es), bütykös ásólúd (hu), شهرمان مألوف (ar), bergeend (nl) … and 27 more languages
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Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) (26499348215)2014 04 18 Tadorna tadorna pair, Swallow PondA common shelduck in Nida, Lithuania
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