Northern shoveler

A northern shoveler

Spatula clypeata

The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Anas clypeata) is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and 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.

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

Northern Shoveler Media

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  A pair foraging together in New York

• Groups of northern shovelers swim rapidly in circles to collect food from the surface by creating a funnel effect.

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  Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden

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  ID composite from the Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland

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  In flight Northern shoveler Male in Chilika Lake.

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  Male northern shoveler in Butte County, California.

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  Female stretching after bathing in Kolkata.