Northern Shoveler
Anas clypeata

f9 @ 1/2000s, ISO:800, Nikon D3S w 500mm and 1.7X tele-extender

\"Northern Shoveler,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Northern Shoveler, Anas clypeata, n 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 of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon. The Northern Shoveler is sometimes referred to by hunters as the \"spoony\". Other disparaging names, as compared to the mallard, are the \"smiling mallard\" and the \"Poor Man\'s Mallard\".

Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico

01/17/2013