Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Females, species sexually dimorphic. Hazel Bazemore Park, Calallen, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Zone. Situated in the Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin at ca. 4 m (13 ft) elevation. Small depressional pond.
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Female. Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA. Pond 3 next to the bottomland hardwood woodland ca. 137 m (450 ft) elevation.
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Female. Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA. Pond 3 next to the bottomland hardwood woodland ca. 137 m (450 ft) elevation.
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Male, winter plumage (eclipse plumage). Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA. Pond 3 next to the bottomland hardwood woodland ca. 137 m (450 ft) elevation.
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Male: eclipse plumage, species sexually dimorphic. Females wing visible on the right. Photographed in Shoveler Pond, Anauhac National Wildlife Refuge, northwest of High Island abutting East Bay, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Coastal marshes and prairies at 2-3 m...
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) This female was photographed in Hornsby Bend, east of Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA. Edwards Plateau Vegetational Area. Colorado River bottomlands and sewage treatment ponds at ca. 128 m (420 ft) elevation.
Northern Shovelers feed by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging its bill from side to side and using the bill to strain food from the water. It also eats mollusks and insects in the nesting season.
The nest is a shallow depression on the ground, lined with plant material and down, usually...
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