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northern shoveler Australian shoveler (Anas rhynchotis) northern shoveler (Anas clypeata) red shoveler (Anas platalea) northern shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Quizzes
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)
Wild Words from the Animal Kingdom Vocabulary Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
turkey vulture. vulture. Close-up of a head and beak of a Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
A Little Bird Told Me
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animal. Amphibian. Frog. Anura. Ranidae. Frog in grass.
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Shoebill. A Shoebill Stork (Balaeniceps rex), aka 'Whalehead' standing in shallow marsh. Resides in tropical East Africa. A very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.
Funky Feathers: 10 Bizarre Birds
Hungry Pelican waiting to be fed, beak open, Australia
Why Don’t Birds Have Teeth?
Common, or southern, cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).
8 Birds That Can’t Fly
Spider monkey swinging in a tree. (primate, jungle animal)
Why Do Animals Have Tails?
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World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration
Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69
The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.
26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

shoveler: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - Shoveler Bird. Jun 13, 2020
Added photographs of a northern shoveler (Anas clypeata), a Australian shoveler (Anas rhynchotis), and a red shoveler (Anas platalea). Sep 24, 2018
Added new Web site: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Northern Shoveler. Nov 18, 2008
Added new Web site: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - Shoveler Bird. Nov 18, 2008
Added new Web site: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology - All About Birds - Northern Shoveler. Nov 18, 2008
Media added. May 19, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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