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Anas clypeata
Male Description Breeding Plumage: Head dark glossy green. Bill black. Back black. Chest white. Flanks and belly chestnut-brown. Eyes yellow. Eclipse Plumage: Duller. Head and breast brownish black speckled with whitish or tan. Back black with tan feather edges. Flanks light brown. May show indistinct white crescent on face behind bill. Eyes yellow.
End of Graveyard Slough on Lake Lewisville. They were sleeping and left as I approached.
Perhaps the most outwardly distinctive of the dabbling ducks, the Northern Shoveler inhabits wetlands across much of North America. Its elongated, spoon-shaped bill has comblike projections along its edges, which filter out food from the water.
Spotted on Dec 7, 2012
Submitted on Dec 18, 2012
2 Comments
Thanks; I put up the wrong shot of a later spotting. Corrected :)
You birds in the first picture are not Shovelers.