Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large waterfowl of the genus Tadorna of the Eastern Hemisphere, especially the Eurasian species T. tadorna, having black, white, and brownish-red plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sheldrake , 3. - noun The female of the sheldrake.
- noun The red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The sheldrake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
waterfowl of the genusTadorna , native toEurasia ,Africa andAustralasia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun female sheldrake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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River bed invertebrates support a diverse birdlife including wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata, black-billed gull, black-fronted tern Sterna albistriata and banded dotterel Pluvialis obscura.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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A subspecies of the critically endangered crested shelduck, called Kuroda's sheldrake Tadorna cristata kuroda, once occurred along the southern coast of Korea.
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Freshwater wetlands in the South-West support sizable populations of several wetland birds, including grey duck, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata and shoveler Anas rhynchotis, two species of shag Phalacrocorax spp. and marsh and spotless crake.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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Three Palaearctic species, golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) breed in the Bale Mountains, their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone.
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The critically endangered crested shelduck Tadorna cristata, once occurred along the Korean Coast.
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Yedikır qualifies as an IBA for the large number of ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) that roost there in the non-breeding season.
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The video also showed the tourists shooting a paradise shelduck with a rifle.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson said she was "absolutely outraged" by the clip, which also showed the tourists shooting a paradise shelduck.
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories userhelp@nzherald.co.nz 2010
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The video also showed them shooting a paradise shelduck with a rifle.
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The video also showed the tourists shooting a paradise shelduck with a rifle.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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