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Brahminy Shelduck
Tadorna ferruginea
24.0833, 70.1667
Field Notes
Description:
A large brown duck with paler head and neck and sometimes a faint black collar at its base. Wings, white, black and green. Tail black. Female similar, but lacking the black collar and almost whitish head. A vigilant duck which eats vegetable matter, aquatic insects and fish, crabs and reptiles.
Habitat:
Often seen around mudspits and sandbanks.
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