Northern Shoveler

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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 549/578(Observe the Bird and recognize)...NORTHERN SHOVELER... WATERCOLOUR...A4...2015... [From the photograph of Mr. AMISH PATEL] .... The northern shoveler ( 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. The Northern shoveler is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. This species is unmistakable in the northern hemisphere due to its large spatulate bill. The breeding drake has an iridescent da