What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Northern Shoveler been recorded?

Spatula clypeata occurrence evidence comes from 573,018 records in 64 countries and territories, from 1834 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Northern Shoveler
Northern Shoveler — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAnseriformesAnatidaeSpatula

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

573,018 records across 64 countries and territories, 1834–2026.

Spatula clypeata · GBIF taxon key 8332393

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18342026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Northern Shoveler has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Northern Shoveler. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 419,135
Belgium 129,075
United States 14,640
Austria 3,540
United Kingdom 2,678
Canada 906
Germany 791
South Korea 634
Spain 424
Russia 222
Mexico 206
Netherlands 179
Taiwan 82
Luxembourg 66
Ukraine 63
Mongolia 47
Japan 39
France 34
China 32
India 22
Denmark 18
Estonia 17
Italy 14
Senegal 13
Finland 11
Colombia 10
Israel 9
Portugal 9
Azerbaijan 8
Ireland 7
Hong Kong 5
Romania 5
Afghanistan 4
Czechia 4
Iran 4
Kenya 4
Türkiye 4
Uganda 4
ZZ 4
Albania 3

Showing the top 40 of 64 places.

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