'How to solve "org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"" selenium error

I'm going to get the default selected value of the below dropdown

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I wrote below code to do it.

Select selectyear = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("year")));
WebElement year = selectyear.getFirstSelectedOption();
String selectedoption = year.getText();

But this throws the following error

org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"

How can I fix this? same code is working perfectly for dropdowns that don't have "value" attribute.

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