sheldrake

1. Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges (synset 101857056)
   is a type of: sea duck - any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser
   subtypes:

   • goosander, mergus merganser - common merganser of Europe and North America
   • american merganser, mergus merganser americanus - common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander
   • mergus serrator, red-breasted merganser - widely distributed merganser of America and Europe
   • mergus albellus, smew - smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia
   • hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake, lophodytes cucullatus - small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head
   belongs to: genus mergus, mergus - mergansers
   same as: fish duck, merganser, sawbill
2. Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill (synset 101852107)
   is a type of: duck - small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
   subtypes: shelduck - female sheldrake
   belongs to: genus tadorna, tadorna - sheldrakes

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