The Australasian Shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis) is a species of dabbling duck and occurs in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.
The male has a blue-grey head with a vertical white crescent in front of the eyes.
The Australasian Shoveler pictured here is the female with young, photographed in Alice Springs (Central Australia).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anatinae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula shynchotis
Footnote & References
- Australasian shoveler, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_shoveler
- Australasian Shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis), eBird, https://ebird.org/species/aussho1
- Spatula rhynchotis (Latham, 1801), Australasian Shoveler, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/ALA_DR653_101
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