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Ruddy shelduck at 4,250 m (13,940 ft), Chandra Taal, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh The ruddy shelduck grows to a length of 58 to 70 cm (23 to 28 in) and has a 110–135 cm (43–53 in) wingspan. The male has orange-brown body plumage and a paler, orange-brown head and neck, separated from the body by a narrow black collar.
Ruddy Shelduck. Named for its beautiful coloring, the ruddy shelduck is a larger-sized bird that can be found across much of Asia, eastern Europe, and northwestern Africa.
Tadorna ferruginea (Pallas 1764) (ruddy shelduck) LC; Tadorna cana (Gmelin 1789) (South African shelduck) LC †T. cf. variegata (Chatham Islands shelduck) Tadorna tadornoides (Jardine & Selby 1828) (Australian shelduck) LC; Tadorna variegata (Gmelin 1789) (paradise shelduck) LC; Tadorna cristata (Kuroda 1917) (crested shelduck) CR D
The shelducks, most species of which are found in the genus Tadorna (except for the Radjah shelduck, which is now found in its own monotypic genus Radjah), are a group of large birds in the Tadorninae subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.
The common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a waterfowl species of the shelduck genus, Tadorna. It is widespread and common in the Euro-Siberian region of the Palearctic , mainly breeding in temperate and wintering in subtropical regions; in winter, it can also be found in the Maghreb .
Hybrids between the ruddy duck and white-headed duck are undesirable in parts of Europe [24] [25] where the introduced ruddy duck has bred with native white-headed ducks. The increasing number of ruddy ducks and hybrids threatens the existence of the white-headed ducks, resulting in shooting campaigns to remove the introduced species.
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