Northern Shoveler
by Felix Lai
Title
Northern Shoveler
Artist
Felix Lai
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This photo captured a beautiful migratory bird, Northern Shoveler.
The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America,[ wintering in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central, 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.
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.
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January 26th, 2024
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