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South African Shelduck Tadorna cana

  • LC Least Concern
  • Names (23)
  • Monotypic
Carles Carboneras
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated October 19, 2013

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Recommended Citation

Carboneras, C. (2020). South African Shelduck (Tadorna cana), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.soashe1.01