#0580 · 🐦 birds

Northern Shoveler

🇳🇱 Slobeend ·Spatula clypeata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © silvertop41 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Vitaliy Khustochka · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © ohoney · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © albissers_grund · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Dina Nesterkova · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrew Thomas · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Rotterdam Rechter Maasoever, Rotterdam, Nederland:© Jan van Holten · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Nieuwe-Tonge, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Vuren, Nederland:© Tijm · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Anjum:© jom_nature · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Spatula clypeata ), or northern shoveller in British English, sometimes known simply as the shoveler , is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, wintering in southern Europe, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Central, 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...

base stats

NL sightings 1,389iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 141,957iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 1,389 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #49 most seen of the birds in NL.
141,957 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).