Northern Shoveler
“Spatula clypeata. Shoveller Duck. Broad-bill. Bill blackish; iris orange-red: feet vermilion-red. Head and neck dark glossy green. Lower neck and fore breast pure white. Abdomen purplish-chestnut. Wing-coverts sky-blue; speculum rich green, set between white tips of greater coverts, and black subtips and white tips of secondaries; inner secondaries greenish-black, with long white stripe; long scapulars blue on outer webs, striped with white and greenish-black on inner; short anterior scapulars white. Rump and upper and under tail-coverts black; a white patch on each side at root of tail.” Elliot Coues, 1884
Keywords
migratory birds, birds, ornithology, Spatula clypeata, North American birds, omnivorous birds, Broad-bill, dabbler birds, Shoveller DuckGalleries
Birds: SSource
Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)
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