A darker head than the mallard and less shiny, and exhibiting the dabbling common for the shoveler; rather than dipping their head and upper body into the water, they just dipped their bills in the water as they swam. There were two females accompanied.
Found in the arboretum. Two male of what I believe to be shovelers swimming and diving for food near the shore.
The Northern Shoveler ( /ˈʃʌvələr/; Anas clypeata), Northern Shoveller in British English, sometimes known simply as the Shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and is a rare vagrant to Australia. In North America, it breeds along the southern edge of Hudson Bay and west of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada,...
