Translation for 'shelduck' from English to Danish

(common) shelduck [Tadorna tadorna]

gravand {fk}orn.T

ruddy shelduck [Tadorna ferruginea]

rustand {fk}orn.T

• The genus name comes from the French name "Tadorne" for the common shelduck.
• This group is largely tropical or Southern Hemisphere in distribution, with only two species, the common shelduck and the ruddy shelduck breeding in northern temperate regions, though the crested shelduck (presumed extinct) was also a northern species.
• Escaped birds of certain species, e.g. ruddy shelduck, can cause confusion amongst birdwatchers as they occasionally occur in Britain as wild birds.
• ?"Anser scaldii" Beneden 1872 nomen nudum (Late Miocene of Antwerp, Belgium) may be a shelduck.
• Other breeding birds found at Cemlyn include black-headed gull, ringed plover, oystercatcher and shelduck. The site is locally important for wintering wildfowl, with wigeon, shoveler and teal.

• The radjah shelduck ("Radjah radjah"), is a species of shelduck found mostly in New Guinea and Australia, and also on some of the Moluccas.
• Wintering wildfowl include teal, mallard, shoveler, shelduck and goosander.
• "Miotadorna" is a genus of extinct tadornine ducks from the Miocene of New Zealand. It contains two species, "M. sanctibathansi", and "M. catrionae" (Catriona's shelduck).
• The Malagasy sheldgoose ("Centrornis majori") is an extinct monotypic species of large goose in the shelduck subfamily.
• "Balcanas pliocaenica", a waterfowl described from fragmentary remains, may be a distinct and extinct lineage, the first record of the still-living common shelduck ("Tadorna tadorna"), or from a more ancestral shelduck.

• The lake is also used in passing by the ruddy shelduck, common shelduck, black-necked grebe, pied avocet and gull-billed tern.