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Balmaki, B.; Barati, A. 2006. Harvesting status of migratory waterfowl in northern Iran: a case study from Gilan Province. In: Boere, G.; Galbraith, C., Stroud, D. (ed.), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 868-869. The Stationary Office, Edinburgh, UK.
BirdLife International. 2015. European Red List of Birds. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
Brown, L.H., Urban, E.K. and Newman, K. 1982. The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
Cramp, S.; Simmons, K. E. L. 1977. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic, vol. I: ostriches to ducks. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A.; Sargatal, J. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Green, A. J.; El Hamzaoui, M.; El Agbani, M. A.; Franchimont, J. 2002. The conservation status of Moroccan wetlands with particular reference to waterbirds and to changes since 1978. Biological Conservation 104: 71-82.
Johnsgard, P.A. 1978. Ducks, geese and swans of the World. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.
Kear, J. 2005. Ducks, geese and swans volume 1: general chapters; species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina). Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
Kreuzberg-Mukhina, E. A. 2006. The effect of habitat change on the distribution of waterbirds in Uzbekistan and the possible implications of climate change. In: Boere, G.; Galbraith, C., Stroud, D (ed.), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 277-282. The Stationary Office, Edinburgh, UK.
Madge, S.; Burn, H. 1988. Wildfowl. Christopher Helm, London.
Melville, D.S.; Shortridge, K.F. 2006. Migratory waterbirds and avian influenza in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway with particular reference to the 2003-2004 H5N1 outbreak. In: G. Boere, C. Galbraith and D. Stroud (eds), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 432-438. The Stationery Office, Edinburgh, U.K.
Owen, M.; Callaghan, D.; Kirby, J. 2006. Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species. Bonn, Germany.
Popovkina, A. B. 2006. Conflicting trends in Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea populations: a myth or reality? In: Boere, G.; Galbraith, C., Stroud, D. (ed.), Waterbirds around the world, pp. 480-481. The Stationary Office, Edinburgh, UK.
Quan, R. C.; Wen, X.; Tang, X.; Peng, G. H.; Huang, T. F. 2001. Habitat use by wintering Ruddy Shelduck at Lashihai Lake, Lijiang, China. Waterbirds 24(3): 402-406.
Scott, D. A.; Rose, P. M. 1996. Atlas of Anatidae populations in Africa and western Eurasia. Wetlands International, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Wetlands International. 2015. Waterbird Population Estimates. Available at: https://wpe.wetlands.org. (Accessed: 17/09/2015).
Zubko, V.; Havrilenko, V.; Semenov, N. 2001. Restoration of the Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea population in Ascania Nova nature reserve (Southern Ukraine). Acta Ornithologica (Warsaw) 36(1): 97-100.
IUCN SSC Duck Specialist Group
Detailed species account from European Red List of Birds (BirdLife International 2015)
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/ruddy-shelduck-tadorna-ferruginea on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.