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Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) (26499348215)🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Common Shelduck

Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus, 1758)

翘鼻麻鸭（學名：Tadorna tadorna）又名白鸭、冠鸭、掘穴鸭、潦鸭、翘鼻鸭、花凫。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
AnAge
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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.

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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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