Common Shelduck

Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus, 1758)

		male (left), female (right) chicks
2021-06-05 Buryatia, Borgoisky Reserve, Lake Beloe 2020-06-04 Altai Territory, Khabary village, lake Gorkoye	© Aleksey Bolshakov © Vladimir Maer

Distribution

In Siberia, innumerous but locally common in steppes, more rare in forest-steppe. Rare vagranis in more northern areas. In the western Transbaikal some expansion of breeding area was indicated in the last decades of years.

References

В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Сибири". Москва-Екатеринбург, Изд-во "Кабинетный ученый", 2014