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A shelduck is a DUCK Tadorna tadorna with a
dark-green head and red bill, with the rest
of the plumage strikingly marked in black,
white, and chestnut. Widely distributed in
Europe and Asia, it lays 10-12 white eggs in
rabbit burrows on sandy coasts, and is
usually seen on estuary mudflats.
Subject by: Shaun Jay