Northern shoveler

Northern shoveler Temporal range: Pleistocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Male
Female
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	Spatula
Species:	S. clypeata
Binomial name
Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Range distribution of northern shoveler   Breeding   Resident   Passage   Non-breeding   Vagrant (seasonality uncertain)   Extant & Introduced (seasonality uncertain)
European distribution.   Breeding   Resident   Non-breeding
Synonyms
Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758

The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler,^[2] is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America,^[3] wintering in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central America, 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.^[4][5]

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.^[1]