Mountain duck

Weight

1.29 kg – 1.56 kg

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

8.25 years

Diet

Omnivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

wetland

Egg incubation

30 days

Young per litter or clutch

10.2

Litters or clutches a year

1

Lifestyle

Terrestrial

Migration

Partial

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The mountain duck is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderAnseriformes
5. familyAnatidae
6. genusTadorna
7. SpeciesTadorna tadornoides (Jardine & Selby, 1828)

Synonyms Anas tadornoides, Casarca tadornoides, Casarca tadornoides westralis, Nettalopex tadornina, Tadorna tadornoides westralis

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Ruddy shelduck

Tadorna ferruginea

Anatidae

LC, Least Concern

Common shelduck

Tadorna tadorna

Anatidae

P

Pari

Tadorna variegata

AnatidaeNo free photo yet

C

Cape shelduck

Tadorna cana

AnatidaeNo free photo yet

C

Crested shelduck

Tadorna cristata

AnatidaeNo free photo yet

T

Tadorna tadorna x ferruginea

AnatidaeNo free photo yet

CompareMountain duck vs Ruddy shelduckMountain duck vs Common shelduckMountain duck vs PariMountain duck vs Cape shelduck

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@misc{mountain_duck_2026,
  title = {Mountain duck (Tadorna tadornoides)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mountain-duck},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}