PARADISE SHELDUCK

Photographed at Ambury, New Zealand, June 2017

(*  740)               PARADISE SHELDUCK             Tadorna variegata 

NEW ZEALAND             12

Endemic found across all of New Zealand. 63 cm. Found in farmland, lakes, ponds, high-country riverbeds.

Photographed at Shakespeare Nature Reserve

PARADISE SHELDUCK

Photographed at Lake Wollumboula, NSW December 2015

740             PARADISE SHELDUCK              Tadorna variegata

Australia          (583)

The Paradise Shelduck is endemic to New Zealand and this one seen at Lake Wollumboula (near Nowra) NSW is the first record of one appearing in Australia. They are prize game birds and were hunted in New Zealand outside the breeding season, when the birds can not fly.