Common Sheldrake - 1894
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 4:07PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Mathew, Shelduck, resident, wildfowl

Tadorna cornuta

Resident.

This handsome duck has been seen by Sir Hugh Owen, on the sands at Goodwick. Mr. Dix states that a pair or two nest on sand-hills below Milford Haven. Numbers nest on sandhills near Laugharne, just beyond the eastern borders of the county, in Carmarthenshire. A Sheldrake was captured, with other fowl, on Orielton decoy, one winter.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

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