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    (c) silvertop41, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Mason Maron, all rights reserved

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    (c) Vitaliy Khustochka, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Roderick Hornby, all rights reserved

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    (c) ohoney, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) albissers_grund, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Northern Shoveler

Spatula clypeata

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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...

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