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| Sightings / Found at |
Van vihar,
Kaliasoth |
| Scientific Name | Tadorna ferruginea |
| Common Name | Brahminy shelduck |
| Local Name | Surkhab |
| Description | Winter visitor from nepal, tibet, ladakh. On mudspits and sandbanks, near lakes. In pairs. At open tanks and stones and pebbles around water area. |
| Identification | Large orange brown duck, pale head, faint black collor at base of neck. Tail black and white, black and glistening green wings. |
| Size | 66 cm. |
| Feeding | vegetable matter, mulluscs, crustaceans, aquatic insects, fish and reptiles. |
| Nest | Thick pad of down feathers, in holes in cliffs. |
| Egg | 6-10, pearly white, smooth textured |
| Call | nasal aang aang |
