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Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Chick Type: Precocial (Parental attendance) Type of Duck: Dabbling Northern Shovelers breed in Alaska, western Canada, and the northwestern region of the United States. They wiinter in the southwest, along the coastline of California, and along the Atlantic coastal regions from Connecticut to Mexico. All other states are in their migration path. This species is also found in Europe and Asia. Their diet consists of aquatic vegetation and aquatic invertebrates. Female Shovelers lay 8 - 12 pale greenish gray to olive-buff eggs and the incubation time is around 23 - 28 days. Shovelers are one of the easiest duck species to identify. No other native species possess bill like theirs. The bill shape especially makes females easy to identify from many similar colored female waterfowl. Their bill is very well evolved for straining food items from water. Both male and female Northern Shovelers have a green speculum on their wing. |
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