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The shelduck has been observed in flocks of two to eight birds.

Seal Sands is a valuable winter stopping off point for the shelduck.

It has been suggested that this shelduck may be a nocturnal feeder.

On the smallest of the islands a shelduck couple cosily cuddled.

He fixed his stare on a shelduck whose white and brown plumage he could easily see.

He told us that during the January 'freeze-up' there had been a great influx of shelduck.

It is related to Aix, a species of shelduck.

The Common Shelduck resembles a small short-necked goose in size and shape.

Sometimes more than 1,500 Ruddy Shelduck are seen.

However, the Crested Shelduck has not been definitively sighted since 1964.

Nesting birds include the little tern, redshank and shelduck.

The last of the trees fell away behind him, the lake rushed forwards below, the shelduck dabbled on unaware.

And a shelduck flew in to splash-land.

They are usually placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.

Almost all of the Common Shelduck and shorebirds that used the bay when mud was exposed no longer feed there.

The Ruddy Shelduck is usually found in pairs or small groups and rarely forms large flocks.

While this garnered 82 reports of the species, follow-up surveys of the area failed to find the shelduck.

He described the Crested Shelduck in 1917.

Whether this latter anatid was indeed a shelduck is presently undetermined.

The results confirm the importance of the estuary for shelduck and identify particularly sensitive areas for breeding.

The movements and moult migration of Shelduck in Sussex have been little studied.

As far as we know, the first practical application was for the American piston-powered Shelduck target.

Two additional Crested Shelduck specimens are known to have existed, though both have been lost.

Handsome shelduck swooshed in the shallows.

Over 100 species of bird have visited the reserve, and shelduck, redshank and lapwing often nest.