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Anas clypeata (Northern Shoveler)

Synonyms: Rhynchaspis clypeata; Spatula clypeata (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern shoveler (/ˈʃʌvələr/; Anas clypeata), or northern shoveller in British English, sometimes known simply as the shoveller, 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.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
3
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.61124
EDGE Score: 0.959827

Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  10
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  45 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  4,500,000
Incubation [4]  23 days
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [6]  20 inches (50 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds
Wing Span [9]  30 inches (.77 m)
Adult Weight [2]  1.444 lbs (655 g)
Birth Weight [4]  23 grams
Female Weight [2]  1.526 lbs (692 g)
Male Weight [2]  1.365 lbs (619 g)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  11.8 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Prairie wetlands, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [3]  Wetlands
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  60 %
Diet - Plants [5]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  20 %
Female Maturity [4]  8 months
Male Maturity [4]  8 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Najas guadalupensis (Florida waternymph)[10]
Ruppia cirrhosa (spiral ditchgrass)[10]

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[10]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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2Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
6Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
9British Trust for Ornithology
10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
12International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0