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Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)

Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Female
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Female
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Male
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Male
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Female
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) Male

About Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Anseriformes
  • Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks

The northern shoveler, often known simply as the shoveler where other related species do not occur, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and throughout the Palearctic and across most of North America, and winters in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is a rare vagrant to Australia. In North America, it breeds along the southern edge of Hudson Bay and west of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon.

Source: Wikipedia

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