Paradise Shelduck
Tadorna variegata· 鸭科(1 photos)
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Paradise Shelduck
63 - 71 cm. Large duck with rufous vent, white upper-wing coverts, grey-brown primaries, green secondaries and rufous tertiaries. Male has blackish head with greenish gloss and grey-brown body with black-barred feathers. Female has conspicuous white head, and rufous-orange body, partially concealed by black barring in eclipse plumage.
- Voice
- Vocal; male has deep grunting honk, female has high-pitched 'eek-eek'.
- Habitat
- Pasture, ponds, lakes and rivers.
- Range & Status
- New Zealand breeding endemic; very rare vagrant to Australian territory: party of 5 recorded on Lord Howe Island in 1950.
