Northern shoveler

Northern shoveler
Temporal range: Pleistocene–present
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Male
Female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Spatula
Species:
S. clypeata
Binomial name
Spatula clypeata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Range distribution of northern shoveler
  Breeding
  Resident
  Passage
  Non-breeding
  Vagrant (seasonality uncertain)
  Extant & Introduced (seasonality uncertain)
European distribution.
  Breeding
  Resident
  Non-breeding
Synonyms

Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758

Dickcissel male perched on a metal pole singing, with neck stretched and beak open.

Songs and calls
Listen to Northern Shoveler on xeno-canto

The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler,[2] is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America,[3] wintering 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.[4][5]

The northern shoveler is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[6] The conservation status of this bird is Least Concern.[1]

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2019). "Spatula clypeata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22680247A153875944. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22680247A153875944.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The British List" (PDF). British Ornithologist's Union. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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