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n. - Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill; Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges.

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  • Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake?
  • A subspecies of the critically endangered crested shelduck, called Kuroda's sheldrake Tadorna cristata kuroda, once occurred along the southern coast of Korea.
  • In a lonesome inlet, a sheldrake, lost from the flock,
  • The sheldrake ducks also have a fleshy growth on the bill.
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