Bird / Anas clypeata

Northern Shoveler

LC

Lowest risk

Migratory

The northern shoveler, 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, Africa, 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.

Range mass
470 to 1000 g
Average basal metabolic rate
3.9209 W
Range eggs per season
9 to 11
Average eggs per season
11
Average time to hatching
23 days
Average lifespan
Status: wild
223 months

Johnson, K. 2000. "Anas clypeata" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anas_clypeata/

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