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Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata

Photo: Hans Smulders

Classification

Anatidae [family]
Spatula [genus] (3)
clypeata [species]

Classification

Anatidae [family]
Spatula [genus] (3)
clypeata [species]

Presence

Recorded on
  • Aruba
  • Bonaire
  • Curaçao
  • Sint Maarten
  • Presence status
  • Indigenous (1) - Aruba
  • Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
  • Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
  • Indigenous (1) - Sint Maarten
  • To be expected (3c)
  • Distribution description North America and temperate Eurasia.
    Notes on presence status First observed in 2002 on St. Martin (Brown & Collier, 2006). Winter visitor. This bird might be a very infrequent visitor of the Dutch Caribean Islands according to Macrae et al (2021), but this species has not been recorded yet on Saba and St. Eustatius.

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