What's the difference between sheldrake and shelduck?

Sheldrake


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.
  • (n.) Any one of the American mergansers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A more rigorous and transparent process would encourage social services to take greater care to justify where a child was placed, agrees Sheldrake.
  • (2) If local residential provision cannot, or indeed should not, be expanded quickly, "there has to be a really huge emphasis on quality rather than cost", argues Jill Sheldrake, director of social care at Together Trust, a charity that runs residential homes in the north-west.

Shelduck


Definition:

  • (n.) The sheldrake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Breeding birds feeding on the estuary in summer include curlews, shelducks and oystercatchers.
  • (2) Attempts at virus isolation from cloacal swabs resulted in the recovery of 10 strains of hemagglutinating viruses from a total of 349 ducks, mainly shelducks (Tadorna tadorna) captured in the north of France.
  • (3) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
  • (4) A family of Raja Shelducks, the eight adolescent youngsters obediently following their parents, is the first surprise; a flock of this country’s largest flying bird, the Australian White Pelican, is next.
  • (5) Shelduck is known to be a partially migratory species, wintering in western Europe, some of them migrating northward to Scandinavia during the summer.

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