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Where does the Northern Shoveler live?

Spatula clypeata has 6,486,666 records in 185 countries and territories, from 1832 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Northern Shoveler
Northern Shoveler — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeSpatula

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

18322026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 3,385,734
Canada 519,411
Netherlands 451,601
Sweden 431,696
United Kingdom 339,254
Denmark 205,053
Spain 185,200
France 154,663
Belgium 139,266
India 101,862
Taiwan 82,384
Germany 60,280
Mexico 51,779
Norway 37,072
Portugal 36,393
Israel 32,331
Japan 25,017
Finland 20,538
Russia 20,160
Estonia 15,774
Italy 15,329
Poland 12,658
Türkiye 10,212
Austria 8,882
United Arab Emirates 8,837
Switzerland 8,654
China 8,618
Czechia 7,864
Hong Kong 7,661
South Korea 7,478
Greece 6,203
Ireland 6,028
Hungary 5,093
Bulgaria 4,286
Cuba 3,726
Morocco 3,358
Ukraine 3,288
Mongolia 2,947
Cyprus 2,745
Iceland 2,593

Showing the top 40 of 185 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.